Five Chinese engineers were killed in a suicide attack on a hydroelectric project in Pakistan’s restive province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
After the attack, Chinese companies have given up working in Pakistan.
A company has halted construction work at another hydropower project in the same restive province and laid off hundreds of workers.
Three days after the attack, two more Chinese companies have stopped work on hydropower projects.
Six persons, including five Chinese engineers working at the Dasu hydroelectric project, were killed when an explosive-laden vehicle collided with a bus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bisham area on Tuesday.
However, no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. The Pakistani government had ordered an investigation into this accident, but China does not seem to trust its special friend.
If reports are to be believed, China has sent a team to Pakistan to investigate this accident.
‘Dawn’ newspaper, quoting government sources, said in its news that the Chinese company ‘Power Construction Corporation of China’ (PCCC) has started construction work on the Tarbela Hydroelectric Expansion Project in the Swabi district of the province after the death of Chinese citizens in a suicide attack in Shangla district. Construction related works have been suspended. More than 2,000 workers have been laid off from work here.
According to the news, the project manager of the company issued an order announcing the suspension of work and said that due to security reasons, all the employees and workers have been removed till further orders.
Let us tell you that thousands of Chinese workers are working on many projects in Pakistan under the aegis of the US $ 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Recently news has come that at least 12 people died in two separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police gave this information on Friday.
The driver of a pickup truck lost control of the vehicle in the hilly area of Buner district due to brake failure, police said.
He said the vehicle lost control and slid down the hill, killing eight people from a family, including five women and two children.
In the second incident, four miners from the same family were killed in a sudden collapse of a coal mine in Kabilai Kurram district. Officials said the deceased miners were residents of Swat district.