At least three people, including a Chinese national were reportedly injured in a remote-controlled blast near SteelTown here on Monday morning.
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According to Dawn News, the planned explosion targeted a Chinese engineer in Karachi.
Pakistan’s military has prepared and deployed a Special Security Division of 15,000 personnel, mostly troops, to ensure protection of CPEC and Chinese nationals working on the project. The bomb went off when a auto onboard a Chinese national and others passed through the area leaving three persons including the Chinese man injured.
In a meeting with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in October past year, Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong had demanded fool-proof security to all Chinese workers associated with the CPEC.
A low-intensity bomb went off by the road in a suburb of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, shattering the windows of the van the men were travelling in.
A pamphlet signed by a group called the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army, an ethnic Sindhi separatist group, was found at the site, police said.
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One of the militants was identified as Riaz Raju, who was wanted over the killing of policemen and murders of minority Shia Muslims in Karachi, Anwar said. Almost six months ago, for 111 Chinese projects, the Sindh police were ensuring security to more than 1,500 nationals of the neighbouring country.
