QUETTA: At least six people, among them three Chinese engineers, sustained injuries in a suicide attack in Dadar area of Dalbandin on Saturday morning.

The Chinese Engineers escorted by Frontier Corps were heading towards Dalbanin Airport from Saindaik Cooper and Gold site when a suicide attempt was made on them via using a car which the suicide rammed into the passenger bus carrying the Chinese engineers.

“The vehicle laden with explosives exploded near the bus at Quetta-Taftan Highway, injuring six, among them three Chinese Engineers, two FC soldiers and the bus driver,” Levies Force sources told media.

A heavy contingent of Frontier Corps and Levies along with District Administrators rushed to the spot and cordoned of the blast site while the injured were taken to the District Headquarter Hospital, Dalbandin.

Deputy Commissioner Chaghi Sardarzada Saif Kethran later confirmed that the injured Chinese Engineers had been shifted to Karachi for medical treatment and the injured FC soldiers were taken to Quetta.

“The injured Chinese escaped the blast and received minor wounds, but we have shifted them to Karachi for better medical care,” DC Chaghi added.

Care-taker Chief Minister Balochistan Alaudd Din Marri condemned the attack on Chinese Engineers directing authorities to take more strict security measures for foreigners working in Balochistan,

“Terrorists are making coward attempts to disturb development process in Balochistan but they won’t be succeeded in their vicious ambitions,” CM Marri Balochistan said and ordered immediate arrest of perpetrators carried out attack on Chinese.

Care-taker Home Minister Agha Umar Bangulzai said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will be completed in Balochistan and these attacks can’t deter government from developing Balochistan directing security officials to make strict security arrangements for Chinese Engineers across the province.

So far no group has claimed responsibility for the blast but it was the first suicide attack on Chinese Engineers working in Pakistan.

“Initial investigation suggest it was a suicide attack and the suicide attacker wanted to ram his vehicle into the bus but fortunately it exploded at a little distance,” DC Chaghi said and added that further interrogation was underway.