Chinese worker targeted in Karachi roadside bomb attack

A Chinese worker was attacked in a targeted road side bomb blast which took place in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Hadeed area on Monday. According to the details provided by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar, at least one person sustained minor injuries due to the remote-controlled explosion, but thankfully no one was killed.

SSP Anwar said that a pamphlet written in Sindhi was recovered from the site of the explosion in which the foreign investment and development in Sindh was denounced. It was written in the pamphlet that ‘foreign control over Sindh’s natural resources is a condemnable act’.

The targeted Chinese worker was an engineer by profession and he was on his way to work with his driver when the attack took place. According to witnesses, the explosives were planted opposite Quaid-i-Azam Park along the National Highway. As soon as the vehicle carrying the Chinese engineer passed by the explosive device, it exploded. This showed that the bomb was remote controlled as the culprit waited for his targeted vehicle to pass before detonating the bomb.

Witnesses also reported that a suspicious item was seen in the green belt of the road before the explosion took place. However, no one saw who put that explosive device there.

The police cordoned off the area of the explosion and collected evidence from the scene for investigations. More than five hundred kilograms of kilograms of explosives were used in the improvised explosive device (IED) which also included nuts and bolts.

Hundreds of Chinese workers are currently employed in different projects all across Pakistan on various development projects which come under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) agreements. Security of these workers is being looked after by the Sindh police and the Rangers.

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