{"id":5212,"date":"2024-10-07T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2024-10-07T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:15:37","slug":"two-chinese-has-killed-explosion-near-international-airport-of-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=5212","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese has killed explosion near international airport of Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi. An explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has killed two Chinese nationals and injured several others, officials from both countries said.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5213 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095328-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/> Police and the provincial government said a tanker exploded outside the airport, which is Pakistan\u2019s biggest, on Sunday night. The nature of the blast was not immediately clear, the local broadcaster Geo News cited a provincial official as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement emailed to journalists, the separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the explosion was an attack carried out by them using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeting \u201ca high-level convoy of Chinese engineers and investors\u201d coming from Karachi\u2019s airport.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095326-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/> The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said a convoy carrying Chinese staff of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company had been attacked at around 11pm. It condemned what it said was a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d, and urged a thorough investigation to punish the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Embassy and Consulates General in Pakistan strongly condemn this terrorist attack, express deep condolences to the innocent victims of both countries and sincere sympathies to the injured and (their) families,\u201d it said in a statement. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-jnews1140x815 wp-image-5217\" src=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095323-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/>Videos showed flames engulfing cars and a thick column of smoke rising from the scene. There was a heavy military deployment at the site, which was cordoned off.- AP<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_241007_095612_159.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi. An explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi has killed two Chinese nationals and injured several others, officials from both countries said. Police and the provincial government said a tanker exploded outside the airport, which is Pakistan\u2019s biggest, on Sunday night. The nature of the blast was not immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241007_095319.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}