The three Chinese technicians who survived a gun attack in southwestern Pakistan earlier in the week returned home on Friday along with seven other colleagues working on the same project.

They were transported in a Pakistani military special plane to Beijing and then transferred on domestic passenger plane to Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province. They were welcomed by families and colleagues at the airport.

The technicians escaped an attack in the Pakistani town of Hub, some 700 km southeast of Quetta, the Balochistan provincial capital, when their car was attacked by gunmen. Three of their colleagues were killed.

They were working for a Chinese company to prepare equipment and offer technical services to a local cement factory in Pakistan, which will be finished in the first half of this year.

Source: Xinhua