Pakistan attack: Chinese national shot dead at Karachi dental clinic

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63066745

 

An armed attacker posing as a dental patient has killed a man and injured two other people at a clinic in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.

 

Detectives say the attacker, who was in his early 30s, "didn't hurt Pakistanis" in Wednesday's incident.

 

Police have identified the victims as Ronald Chow, who worked as an assistant to dentist Richard Hu, 74, and his wife Margaret, 72.

 

However, it is not the first attack on Chinese citizens in the south Asian country.

In the most recent last April, three Chinese language teachers and their Pakistani driver were killed in an alleged suicide bombing in Karachi, near the city's Confucius Institute.

The separatist Baloch Liberation Army - which opposes Chinese investment in Pakistan for not benefiting locals - said it attacked the vehicle.

China is heavily involved in large infrastructure projects across Pakistan, including in resource-rich Balochistan province - the country's poorest region, and home to a long-running insurgency.