NEW DELHI: Five
Chinese nationals
along with their Pakistani driver were killed in an explosion when their convoy was attacked by a
suicide bomber
in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday.
Reuters reported that the convoy of Chinese engineers traveling from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was targeted by a bomber. Mohammed Ali Gandapur, regional police chief, said that the assailant rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the convoy.
This isn't the first time Dasu, home to a significant dam project, witnessed attacks. In 2021, a bus explosion claimed the lives of 13 individuals, including nine Chinese nationals.
The attack on the Chinese convoy comes on a day when Pakistan was already reeling with attack on their second largest airbase PNS Siddique. Multiple explosions and gunfire by
Balochistan Liberation Army
, that claimed responsibility, left one paramilitary soldier dead while security forces on the Pakistan side killed all five of the assailants in retaliatory fire.
Meanwhile, Pakistani security forces killed at least four terrorists during an intelligence-based operation in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said. The operation took place on Monday in the Dera Ismail Khan district on the reported presence of terrorists in the area, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) - the military's media wing.
An intense exchange of fire took place between the militants and the security personnel, during which the four terrorists were killed, Geo News reported.
In February, Pakistan witnessed 97 militant incidents, causing 87 deaths and 118 injuries, as reported by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).
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