Pakistani police pledges investigation into Chinese engineers' death

Pakistani police said that they would investigate the incident in which three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver were shot dead on Wednesday in the country's southwestern province of Balochistan.

Local police officer Pervez Zahoor told the Geo TV that two motorcyclists opened fire on a car of Chinese engineers in the Hub area of Balochistan. Two Chinese died on the spot and another died in hospital.

The motorcyclists fled after the incident, he said.

The deputy inspector general said that the guards of the Chinese engineers were not accompanying them when they were attacked. He said that police were investigating as to why the guards did not accompanied the engineers.

Earlier, Chinese consul general Sun Chunye in Karachi told Xinhua that the three Chinese killed were from a cement research institute in Hefei of east China's Anhui Province.

There were six Chinese and one Pakistani driver in the car when the incident occurred in the town of Hub, some 700 km southeast of Quetta, the Balochistan provincial capital, he said. The other three Chinese survived with no injury.

Meanwhile, the Baloch Liberation Army has accepted responsibility of the attack, according to a Geo TV report. One unidentified man phoned journalists in Quetta and took responsibility of the shooting.

Source: Xinhua