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7 Oct 2024

Author:
Sophia Saifi & Simone McCarthy, CNN,
Author:
Zahra Fatima and Kelly Ng, BBC News

Pakistan: Airport suicide bombing kills two Chinese national workers adding to repeated attacks on Chinese-backed infrastructure projects

" Chinese workers targeted in deadly Pakistan airport suicide blast", 7 October 2024

Two Chinese nationals were killed and one was injured in a suicide attack near Karachi’s international airport Sunday evening, China’s embassy in Pakistan said Monday, marking the latest in a string of violence against China’s personnel and investments in the country in recent years.

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The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) separatist group claimed responsibility in a statement and said the blast was a suicide attack targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers and investors leaving Jinnah International Airport

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The incident follows a spate of terror attacks earlier this year that Pakistan’s government said were aimed at disrupting its close ties with Beijing.

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Beijing has invested tens of billions of dollars in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship Belt and Road project launched in 2015 that links China’s western Xinjiang region to Pakistan’s Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea with a network of roads, railways, pipelines and power plants.

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