On Tuesday, a female suicide bomber killed four people — three Chinese nationals and a Pakistani guy – outside the Chinese language centre at Karachi University. Four people were also injured in the bomb that ripped through a van carrying university lecturers, including a Chinese national and Rangers troops, according to Karachi police Chief Ghulam Nabi Memon, who spoke to the media at the scene of the incident.
The chief of the Counter-Terrorism Department, Raja Umar Khattab, acknowledged that the suicide attack outside the Confucius Institute was carried out by a female student.
He stated the attacker was an MPhil student who had tweeted her farewell to her classmates at 12:10 p.m.
When a white Hiace van carrying Chinese nationals who were members of the institute’s faculty came into her range, the attacker blew herself up at the Confucius Institute’s gate.
Following the explosion, the van was enveloped in flames, with no possibility for the passengers to escape unharmed.
Three to four kilograms of explosives were employed in the attack, according to the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS). According to officials, the tremendous blast broke windows and doors at numerous university departments.
“We were having a meeting at the dean’s office when we heard the deafening blast,” Naeema Saeed, a professor at the university’s criminology department, said. “It seemed that the roof was falling or the earth was torn. We all rushed outside. We looked around and saw smoke rising.”
On Tuesday, a female suicide bomber killed four people — three Chinese nationals and a Pakistani guy – outside the Chinese language centre at Karachi University.
Four people were injured in the bomb that ripped through a van carrying university lecturers, including a Chinese national and Rangers troops, according to Karachi police Chief Ghulam Nabi Memon, who spoke to the media at the scene of the incident.
The chief of the Counter-Terrorism Department, Raja Umar Khattab, acknowledged that the suicide attack outside the Confucius Institute was carried out by a female student.
He stated the attacker was an MPhil student who had tweeted her farewell to her classmates at 12:10 p.m.
When a white Hiace van carrying Chinese nationals who were members of the institute’s faculty came into her range, the attacker blew herself up at the Confucius Institute’s gate.
Following the explosion, the van was enveloped in flames, with no possibility for the passengers to escape unharmed.
Three to four kilograms of explosives were employed in the attack, according to the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS). According to officials, the tremendous blast broke windows and doors at numerous university departments.
“We were having a meeting at the dean’s office when we heard the deafening blast,” Naeema Saeed, a professor at the university’s criminology department, said. “It seemed that the roof was falling or the earth was torn. We all rushed outside. We looked around and saw smoke rising.”
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