🇵🇰 Chinese nationals killed in Besham attack (1 Viewer)

[ghazi]

Female engineer among Chinese nationals killed in Besham attack: report

Vehicle transporting foreign engineers not up-armoured and lacked protection, says report submitted to govt

Ahtesham Khan
April 07, 2024

A female engineer was among the five Chinese nationals killed in the Besham attack, revealed the second report submitted by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) police to the federal government on Sunday.

A vehicle-borne suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Chinese engineers in the remote Besham area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on March 26. The Chinese engineers were en route from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu – the district headquarters of the Upper Kohistan district of K-P.

Their vehicle was hit by an explosive-laden vehicle, coming from the opposite direction, near Lahore Nala on the Karakoram Highway. The attack had forced Power China and the China Gezhouba Company to suspend work on two dam projects.

Preliminary findings from the report state that the vehicle transporting the foreign engineers was not up-armoured and lacked protection against bullets or explosions.

The report added that aerial photography of the incident site has been completed and the bus targeted by the suicide bomber was at a distance of around 15 feet from the second bus and the explosion threw it off the road into the 300-foot-deep ravine.

The Besham police station is situated approximately six kilometres from the site of the attack, while Dasu Dam is about 77 kilometres away, according to the report.

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The report also stated that CCTV cameras were installed inside all vehicles in the Chinese convoy and the moment of the attack was captured through one such CCTV camera. The K-P police have recovered pieces of the vehicle utilized by the suicide bomber.

Yesterday, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had ordered action against five officials over their "negligence" in light of an inquiry report on the suicide attack on March 26.

Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif instructed a thorough joint investigation into the Besham terrorist attack. A joint investigation team was formed to probe the attack.

Later, the premier decided that he would review the meetings conducted regarding the security situation in the country in general and the security of the Chinese nationals working on different projects across the country in particular every month.

Hundreds of Chinese people are employed at the Dasu and Diamer Bhasha dam construction sites. Operations by Power China have resumed at Diamer Bhasha. However, the China Gezhouba Group Company's operations at Dasu remain suspended.

 

[Lulldapull]

Again?......how is this even possible? Why are they transporting Chinese engineers? Why not have shipping container housing/ mess on site? Too late now anyway.

 

[ghazi]

𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 (𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟔)
(𝟎𝟒) 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐟𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝

A major breakthrough has been achieved in the investigation of the Besham terrorist incident that occurred on March 26, resulting in the deaths of five Chinese nationals and one Pakistani driver.

The JIT has successfully uncovered the terrorist network responsible for this tragic event.

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested four terrorists affiliated with the (Khawarij) TTP in connection with the suïcidē attack on a bus carrying Chinese engineers in Bisham.

The main character in the attack, Adil Shahbaz, hails from Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

According to the CTD Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Adil Shahbaz has admitted his connection with the TTP and his involvement in the attack.

This tragic event claimed the lives of six people, including five Chinese citizens, in a SVBIED attack on a bus carrying Chinese engineers in Bisham on March 26.

Arrested :
1- Adil Shehbaz
S/O Sadbar Khan
Jalal Abad Afghanistan

2- Muhammad Shafiq Qureshi
S/O Haji Muhammad Akbar

3- Zahid Qureshi
S/O Muhammad Shafiq Qureshi

4- Nazeer Hussain
S/O Pir Afzal Shah

 

[Old School]

So the case is closed with the arrests. Nothing has been found about the top planners who plotted and financed these attacks.

 

[Lulldapull]

I bet the remaining arrested are also afghani. Kids of refugees. I just know it.

 

[Old School]

I bet the remaining arrested are also afghani. Kids of refugees. I just know it.

Who hired them ? Establishment doesn’t want to find that out. It is easier to hire poor and vulnerable people like these.

 

[Lulldapull]

Who hired them ? Establishment doesn’t want to find that out. It is easier to hire poor and vulnerable people like these.

Rumor is somebody within the ISI. The US has been abundantly clear on expelling the Chinese.

 

[Azad Kashmir]

munir too busy getting a fresh crate of bottles.