Pakistan: Gunmen attack car carrying Chinese workers in Karachi, one injured

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The motive behind the attack was not immediately clear.

A rescue officer and police said gunmen riding motorcycles opened fire on a car carrying two sugar factory workers in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Wednesday, injuring one, a rescue officer and police said. Said.

The motive behind the attack was not immediately clear, and senior officer Javed Akbar said police were still investigating.

Rescue worker Ahmed Shah said both foreigners were Chinese and one of them was injured. Karachi is the capital of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, home to several Chinese-funded construction projects.

Read also: Pakistan: 10 killed including 6 Chinese engineers, massive explosion in bus carrying them

The incident comes weeks after a bus carrying Pakistani and Chinese workers fell into a ravine in northwest Pakistan, killing nine Chinese and four Pakistanis in an alleged terror attack.

Initially, Pakistan said it was only a road accident, but investigators later concluded that the bus driver lost control after a suicide car bomber set off his explosives prematurely. The attack took place in Kohistan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering troubled Afghanistan.

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