PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Eight people, including four Chinese nationals, were killed in a blast targeting a bus in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, multiple sources told Reuters.
“There is a huge explosion in the bus carrying the Chinese engineers … in Upper Kohistan. Eight people lost their lives,” a senior administrative officer of the Hazara region told Reuters.
He said the bus was carrying over 30 Chinese engineers to the site of Dasu dam in Upper Kohistan.
Two paramilitary security men with the engineers also died, he said.
(Reporting by Jibran Ahmad; Editing by Tom Hogue)