Shangla (PNI) Five Chinese nationals and one Pakistani were killed in an attack on their convoy in Bisham tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla, according to the regional police chief.
Western news agency quoted Mohammad Ali Gandapur, the regional police chief, as saying that a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu.
“Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in the attack,” Gandapur said.
The provincial police had reached the spot and started relief operations. The rest of the people in the convoy have been protected, Gandapur said.
Bisham SHO Bakht Zahir, while talking to media also confirmed that the incident claimed six lives, of which five were Chinese engineers and one was a Pakistani.
He said it was a “suicide blast” and the authorities concerned were collecting evidence. Security arrangements were tightened at the spot and the bodies were being shifted to a hospital, he further said.
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