China on Monday said it is shocked by last week’s suicide bomb attack on a vehicle carrying Chinese personnel in Pakistan, the second such incident in over a month, and asked Islamabad to punish the perpetrators and step up security for scores of its workers employed in CPEC projects. On August 20, a motorcade of the Gwadar East Bay expressway project was attacked by a bomber on the way to the construction site in the restive Balochistan province, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here.
Gwadar is the culmination point of the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). A large number of Chinese experts and workers are employed in Gwadar and the surrounding areas to complete various projects under the CPEC. One Chinese national suffered minor injuries and several local personnel were injured or killed, Wang said in reply to a question.
According to a statement issued by Pakistan authorities, the suicide bomb attack was carried out by a…