A convoy of Chinese engineers was attacked in Pakistan's Balochistan province by armed rebels on Sunday. According to local media reports, Pakistani security forces killed two terrorists in a gunfight. Two Pakistani security personnel were also injured when a convoy of engineers working for a Chinese construction company came under attack on Faqeer Bridge in Gwadar. As per sources, other terrorists fled the spot in an injured condition and an operation is underway to clear the area as gunfight continues. Reports said that explosions and gunfire could be heard across the port city of Gwadar, where all roads remain closed for traffic.
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00:00 A convoy of Chinese engineers was attacked in Pakistan's Balochistan province by armed
00:10 rebels on Sunday.
00:11 According to local media reports, Pakistani security forces killed two terrorists in the
00:16 gunfight.
00:17 Two Pakistani security personnel were also reportedly injured when a convoy of engineers
00:22 working for a Chinese construction company came under attack on Fakir Bridge in Gwadar.
00:27 As per reports, other terrorists fled the spot in an injured condition and an operation
00:32 is underway to clear the area as gunfight continues.
00:36 Reports said that explosions and gunfire could be heard across the fourth city of Gwadar where
00:40 all roads remain closed for traffic.
00:43 The government authorities have confirmed the attack on Chinese engineers in Gwadar.
00:47 As per reports, the attack on the convoy of Chinese engineers happened at around 9.30
00:51 am local time and an intense gunfight is underway for nearly two hours.
00:56 Baloch Liberation Army's Majid Brigade, which is the suicide squad of BLA, has claimed responsibility
01:01 for the attack.
01:02 Chinese consulates in Pakistan have issued orders for its citizens in Balochistan and
01:06 Sindh to remain inside their residences till further notice.
01:10 As per the latest reports, in a self-sacrificing operation in Gwadar, two fidayeen of BLA Majid
01:16 Brigade, Naveed Baloch, alias Aslam Baloch of Darshtnigor and Magbul Baloch, alias Qaim
01:22 Baloch of Geshkor Awaran, targeted a convoy of Chinese engineers.
01:26 This operation, Zir Bahazaag, continued for more than two hours.
01:30 According to the information received so far, at least four Chinese nationals and nine personnel
01:35 of Pakistani military were killed and several were injured.
01:39 This is preliminary information and the number of enemy losses could rise.
01:43 Jiyan Baloch, the spokesperson for the Baloch Liberation Army, claimed that after the successful
01:47 execution of the operation, the BLA fighters chose their last bullets to end their own
01:52 lives.
01:53 In a similar incident, in May last year, a burqa-clad Baloch woman suicide bomber killed
01:58 four people, including three Chinese nationals, in an attack on a minibus carrying staff from
02:02 China-built Confucius Institute at Karachi University.
02:06 The Balochistan Liberation Army, or BLA, claimed responsibility for that attack as well.
02:10 In July 2021, a bus carrying engineers in northwestern Pakistan was bombed.
02:15 Thirteen people, including nine Chinese workers, died.
02:18 Under pressure at that time, Pakistan paid millions in compensation to the families of
02:23 the Chinese workers killed.
02:25 China sent its team to probe the attack.
02:27 In April 2021, a suicide bomb attack at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador
02:31 in Quetta killed four and wounded dozens.
02:35 The ambassador was unhurt.
02:36 Earlier in 2020, Baloch separatists attacked Pakistan's stock exchange, where the Chinese
02:42 have major investments.
02:43 Police followed an attack at the Chinese consulate in Karachi in 2018.
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