Islamabad: At least 12 people, nine of them Chinese citizens and two Pakistani soldiers, were killed and several others were injured in a bus explosion carrying 41 workers to the hydroelectric power plant project in a remote Kohistan region in North Pakistan on Wednesday.
The explosion occurred at 7:30 a.m.
when the Chinese worker and accompanied Pakistani staff headed to their workplace for the ongoing hydroelectric project in the Kohistan District Dasu region in the northwest Khykhwa Khyber Province.
The emergency statement was posted by the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan in response to the attack, stating: “Recently, our company’s project personnel in Pakistan have been attacked, causing victims among our citizens.
The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan urges Chinese citizens, companies And projects in Pakistan to pay attention to the local security situation, strengthen the safety of project personnel, take strict, unnecessary prevention measures except.
Conducting the attack, Chinese Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian urged Pakistan to “punish the perpetrators” and ” In truly protecting the safety of citizens, organizations, and projects “in the country.
Initially, there were reports that contradicted several officials who said that the bomb was planted on the bus while the others described it as a roadside explosion.
A few hours later , Foreign offices contrary to attack reports, Meng Atakan that the bus “falls into a ravine after a mechanical failure results in a gas leak that causes an explosion”.
To put the dead at the age of 12, including nine Chinese citizens.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan for Babar Cloud’s parliamentary affairs, speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, referred to as a “coward attack” and said that it would “not divert attention from special initiatives between Pakistan and neighbors”.
Chinese engineers along with Pakistani construction workers have worked on the Hydroelectric Dasu project and several others in the area where the explosion occurred.