KARACHI—A female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Pakistan on Tuesday, police and officials said.
The blast detonated by the 30-year-old woman blew up a minivan outside Karachi University’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language and cultural center, killing her, the three Chinese teachers and a Pakistani driver.
Broken window glasses after a blast near a passenger van at the entrance of the Confucius Institute University of Karachi, Pakistan, on April 26, 2022. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
It was the first major attack this year against nationals of long-time ally China working in Pakistan.
A separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) based in the southwestern province of Balochistan, said the mother of two, who held a graduate degree in zoology and was studying for another, had volunteered for the attack targeting China, whose investment projects in Balochistan they oppose.
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