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Pakistan to Compensate Families of Chinese Killed in Suicide Bombing
Pakistan announced on Monday it will pay $2.58 million (€2.38 million) in compensation to the families of five Chinese engineers killed in March when a suicide bomber attacked their vehicle.
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The Chinese were attacked in the northwestern city of Bisham, Pakistan, while traveling to the country’s largest dam, Dasu, where they were working.
The Pakistani Finance Ministry said in a statement that the government will also pay $8,950 (nearly €8,300) to the family of the Pakistani driver who was also killed in the March 26 attack.
The government said the attack was planned in Afghanistan and that the bomber was an Afghan national. Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Pakistani militants have denied the allegations.
The compensation was approved at a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Mohammad Aurangzeb, the statement said.
Thousands of Chinese are working on projects related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Some have been attacked in recent years by militants who accuse them of plundering mineral resources.
China is a major economic and political partner of Pakistan. The economic corridor — a series of infrastructure projects to link western China to the Indian Ocean, part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative — is valued at more than €56 billion.
However, insurgent attacks against Chinese citizens have increased in recent years, coinciding with a surge in violence in Pakistan that Islamabad has linked to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.
The corridor was forced to suspend operations in July 2021 after a suicide bombing killed 13 people, including nine Chinese engineers.
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