A suicide bombing targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in southwest Pakistan killed two children and injured three others on Friday, police officials said. “Two children have been killed and three injured in the attack,” Liaquat Shahwani, a spokesman for the Balochistan government told Reuters.
The bombing took place at the East Bay Road in the port city of Gwadar at around 7 pm. Chinese nationals have sustained minor injuries, a police statement noted.
This attack came after the bus attack in the northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in which 13 people, including nine Chinese workers and two Pakistani soldiers, were killed earlier in the month of August.
Gwadar is in the southwestern province of Balochistan, where separatist militants have waged a long-running insurgency. China has a massive investment in the development of the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea.
