The Chinese embassy has called on the Pakistani authorities to conduct a thorough investigation. (File)
Shanghai:
A suicide bombing in Pakistan on a motorcade of Chinese personnel injured a Chinese national and killed two local children, the Chinese embassy in Islamabad said on Saturday.
“The Chinese embassy in Pakistan strongly condemns this act of terrorism, extends its sincere condolences to the injured in both countries and expresses its deepest condolences to the innocent victims in Pakistan,” it said in a statement.
The attack took place on Friday at the Gwadar East Bay Expressway project in Balochistan, the embassy said. Several injured were treated at a local hospital, it said.
The embassy called on the Pakistani authorities to thoroughly investigate the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
In July, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying workers to a dam construction site in northern Pakistan, killing 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals.
Pakistan’s foreign minister said Pakistani Taliban terrorists known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan were behind that attack. The TTP told Reuters it was not involved.
Beijing is investing more than $65 billion in infrastructure projects in Pakistan as part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, under the wider Belt and Road initiative.
“China strongly opposes all forces that use terrorism as a means of gaining geopolitical advantage,” a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said in a statement following last month’s attack.
A Chinese tabloid run by an official of the ruling Communist Party popular described the bus explosion as the worst attack on Chinese citizens in recent years.
