PESHAWAR: A woman was among the five Chinese engineers who were killed last month in northwest Pakistan when a suicide bomber targeted their vehicle that was neither bullet nor bomb-proof, according to a police report.
A vehicle-borne suicide bomber targeted the convoy of Chinese engineers in the remote Besham area of the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when they were being driven to a construction site of the Dasu Hydroelectric power station in Kohistan district of the same province on March 26.
Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in the attack.
A female engineer was among the five Chinese nationals killed in the attack, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on Sunday, citing the police report.
The police report, which has been sent to the federal government, said that the bus targeted in the attack was travelling at a distance of 15 feet from the other bus and fell into a 300-feet-deep ditch after the suicide bomber crashed his explosives-laden vehicle into the vehicle carrying the victims on the Karakoram Highway, Geo News reported on Sunday.
The report said that the vehicle carrying Chinese nationals was neither bullet nor bomb-proof.
It said 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.
The development comes a day after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered disciplinary action against senior police officers for “negligence” in light of an inquiry report over the incident.