Chinese national among three injured in Karachi roadside blast
The blast occurred in Gulshan-e-Hadeed area of Karachi.
KARACHI (Web Desk) – At least three people including a Chinese citizen were slightly injured in a roadside blast in Gulshan-e-Hadeed area in Pakistan‘s southern port city of Karachi on Monday morning, Dunya News reported.
Law enforcement personnel quickly arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.
"The vehicle was travelling from Gulshan-e-Hadeed to Port Qasim," an official told.
The blast took place at about 10:00 am (local time) when a Toyota-made Hiace MPV with a plate number JF-7639 moving on the National Highway in the eastern part of the city was hit by a remote-controlled bomb planted on the green belt along the road, injuring a Chinese national, driver and a security guard. The vehicle was partiallay damaged in the incident.
The Chinese citizen has been identified as Fan Chi.
According to BDS, a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) weighing around half kilograms was used in the blast.
Rao Anwar, a senior superintendent police officer of the city, said that a threat letter of a nationalist group was found on the blast site. However, he did not reveal the contents of the letter.
He said the Sindhudesh Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital where they are said to be in stable condition.
Addressing a ceremony to honour martyred policemen at Garden Headquarters in Karachi, Sindh Inspector General AD Khawaja claimed that foreign hands are involved in Gulshan-e-Hadeed blast.
Anti-statement elements are trying to sabotage Pak-China friendship, he added.
It may be mentioned here that the Pakistani authorities at many times accused longtime regional rival India of seeking to undermine the country‘s $46 billion project to build an economic corridor to transport goods from China‘s western regions through the Pakistani deepwater port of Gwadar.
In March, the security personnel had detained Kulbhushan Jadev, a suspected Indian spy for RAW in Balochistan, the southwestern Pakistani province where most of the CPEC is taking shape.
India has confirmed that the man is a former Indian navy official but denied that he is a spy.
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