Hyderabad:At least five Chinese nationals were among the six persons killed on Tuesday when an explosive-packed vehicle rammed into their bus in Pakistan's troubled northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, officials said. The Chinese were working on the Dasu hydropower project. Several others were injured in the incident that occurred in the Bisham area of Shangla district of the province when a bus en route from Islamabad to Kohistan was hit by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction, the police said. There have been several major attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan.
Here are a few of them:
On March 20, 2024, Baloch separatists armed with guns and bombs attacked Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar port, key to the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, in firing seven militants shot dead by security forces. Unidentified militants on August 13, 2023, attacked a convoy of Chinese engineers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province. Three security officers were injured in an exchange of fire, while two militants were killed and three injured. No Chinese nationals were hurt in the attack.
On April 26, 2022, a female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi and on July 14, 2021, an explosion struck a bus carrying Chinese workers, killing nine of them, plus four other passengers. On June 29, 2020, the BLA claimed responsibility for an attack on the Pakistan
Similarly, in 2019, the separatist outfit attacked Chinese tourists at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar. One of the first suicide attacks targeting Chinese workers took place in Balochistan’s Dalbandin area in August 2018. At least three Chinese engineers, who were believed to be working on a mineral project, were injured in the attack. The 22-year-old man, who carried out the suicide bombing was the son of slain BLA commander Aslam Baloch.