{"id":30731,"date":"2024-03-26T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=30731"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:01:41","slug":"five-chinese-nationals-killed-in-suicide-attack-near-besham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/five-chinese-nationals-killed-in-suicide-attack-near-besham\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Chinese nationals killed in suicide attack near Besham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGLA: Five Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion after their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber near Besham City of Shangla District on Tuesday, a senior police officer said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">A vehicle carrying five Chinese engineers were going to Dasu camp in Kohistan from Islamabad when they came under attack by the terrorists near Besham, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Shangla region. According to the reports, all 6 passengers including Chinese workers have lost their lives, injuring several in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistani-forces-eliminate-all-8-terrorists-in-gwadar-bla-attack\/\">Pakistani forces eliminate all 8 terrorists in Gwadar BLA attack<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">DIG Malakand told the media that the Pakistani driver of the car was injured and was shifted to a local hospital. Later, the driver succumbed to his wounds during treatment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">5 CHINESE NATIONALS KILLED IN PAKISTAN<\/p>\n<p>They were traveling from a hydroelectric dam construction site towards the capital Islamabad when they were killed by a suicide bomber near Besham city.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y3anE6J3bw\">pic.twitter.com\/Y3anE6J3bw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1772573278059532507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A suicide bomber crashed an explosives vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers traveling from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu, DIG Malakand Mohammad Ali Gandapur told Reuters. &#8220;Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in the attack,&#8221; Gandapur said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police had reached the spot and started relief operations, police officials said. Chinese nationals were employed on<span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> the Dasu Hydropower Project, a large hydroelectric gravity dam capable of producing 4,320 MW of electricity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGLA: Five Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion after their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber near Besham City of Shangla District on Tuesday, a senior police officer said. A vehicle carrying five Chinese engineers were going to Dasu camp in Kohistan from Islamabad when they came under attack by the terrorists near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,9,2],"tags":[13870,13872,13871,13873],"class_list":["post-30731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-besham-suicide-attack","tag-chinese-engineers-killed-in-pakistan","tag-chinese-nationals-killed-near-besham","tag-dasu-dam-chinese-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}