Pakistan Police Pakistan police thwart attempted attack on Chinese workers in Karachi
The Pakistani police have thwarted an attempted attack on Chinese workers in Karachi city, media reports said.
Two militants described by police as “terrorists” attacked a boatyard owned by a Chinese company on Wednesday morning, according to the Pakistani division of Arab News as quoted by South China Morning Post.
“Two terrorists tried to kill the Chinese at Dawood Jetty. After an exchange of firing, one terrorist was killed while the other managed to escape,” a police statement said, adding that Constable Akram Ali also suffered a bullet wound in the shoot-out, reported Dawn News.
Senior Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) official Raja Umer Khattab, who visited the spot, told Dawn that Chinese workers were involved in repair work of ships at the jetty.
He said there was a drain near the sea from where one armed assailant attempted to enter and target Chinese workers, but he was spotted by a policeman who opened fire on him.
He, however, clarified that it was a not a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
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