Vehicle carrying Chinese nationals wasn't even bulletproof
PESHAWAR, (NNI): The preliminary investigation of Besham suicide attack on Chinese nationals show that neither their vehicle was bullet nor bombproof.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police sent second report of the tragic incident to federal government.
The report revealed that a woman engineer was also among the deceased.
The report says that as per the image taken of the site of the incident from the air, the bus that was destroyed in the attack was 15 feet away from the second one, and that following the suicide blast the bus fell into 300-feet deep ravine.
Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed while several others were injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus they were travelling in at Besham - a town located in Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A suicide bomber had rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu.
According to report, the bus of Chinese nationals plunged into a 300-feet deep ditch after the suicide blast.
The Besham police station was just 6 KM away from the site of incident while Dasu dam was at the distance of 77 KM.
The report added that the CCTV cameras were installed in all the buses of Chinese convoy.
Earlier, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested more than 10 terrorists and their facilitators involved in the attack.
Dasu is the site of a major dam and the area had been attacked in the past. A blast on a bus had killed 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, in 2021.
The incident created panic and prompted the government of Pakistan to announce measures for the safety of Chinese citizens living in the country.