PESHAWAR, March 26 —A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest Pakistan today, killing six people, police said,...
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The engineers were en route from Islamabad to their camp at the dam construction site in Dasu in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, regional police chief Mohammad Ali Gandapur said.Dasu is the site of a major dam and the area has been attacked in the past. A blast on a bus killed 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, in 2021.
A separate police source told Reuters the convoy was carrying staff of the construction firm China Gezhouba Group Company working on the Dasu hydropower project - the same company targeted in 2021.China’s embassy in Pakistan demanded investigations into the attack. It said strategic projects and sensitive sites vital to Pakistan’s economic progress were being targeted in an effort to sabotage it and sow discord between Pakistan and its allies, most notably China.