(7 Oct 2024)
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Karachi – 7 October 2024
1. Various of damaged vehicles and security
2. Police van parked near the scene
3. Various of damaged vehicles
4. Close of a damage vehicle part on ground
5. Wide of scene, damaged vehicles and security around
6. Paramilitary pickup truck parked near the blast scene
7. Wide of scene
STORYLINE:
Police on Monday remained at the scene of Sunday’s blast outside Karachi airport that killed two workers from China and injured at least eight others.
It was the latest deadly attack on Chinese in the country.
Police and the provincial government said a tanker exploded near what is Pakistan’s largest airport.
Video showed flames engulfing cars and a thick column of smoke rising from the scene.
There was a heavy military deployment at the site, which was cordoned off.
A Chinese Embassy statement said that a convoy carrying Chinese staff of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company (Private) Limited had been attacked around 11 p.m., killing two Chinese and injuring one other.
It said there were Pakistani casualties as well.
Thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, most of them involved in Beijing’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, which is building major infrastructure projects to improve trade routes with the rest of the world.
The airport attack followed a deadly day of attacks in August that killed more than 50 people in nearby Balochistan province and that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said sought to harm Chinese-funded development projects.
AP video by Muhammad Farooq
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