Kochi: Two Chinese nationals working on a power project were killed and 10 injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan, media reports said.
A third body thought to be that of the attacker has been recovered, BBC reports said.
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) owned up responsibility for
the Sunday night’s attack in Sindh province.
The BLA has carried out attacks on Chinese nationals involved in development projects in Pakistan in recent years for depriving the ethnic Baloch residents their share of wealth from foreign investment in the province and natural resources extracted from there.
The engineers were part of the Chinese-funded enterprise Port Qasim Power Generation Co Ltd.
Thousands of Chinese are involved in creating an economic corridor between the two countries as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
The BLA has also fought a long-running insurgency for a separate homeland.
The blast happens amidst Pakistan hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the reports said.
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