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IslamabadcTypeface:> At least six people including five Chinese workers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed into their vehicle in north-western Pakistan, officials said on Tuesday.
The incident took place near Bisham district of the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
“At least five Chinese were killed in the suicide attack,” Gul Naeem, a local police official told DPA.
The dead included the Pakistani driver of the van.
Naeem said that a convoy carrying Chinese workers and engineers along with their security details was on its way to Dasu, where a Chinese hydropower plant is under construction, when a car coming from the opposite direction hit their vehicle. The area is part of the Gilgit-Baltistan region. (DPA)
