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ISLAMABAD, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Pakistani police
said that they would investigate the incident in which three Chinese engineers
and a Pakistani driver were shot dead on Wednesday in the country's southwestern
province of Balochistan.
Local police officer Pervez Zahoor told the Geo TV
that two motorcyclists opened fire on a car of Chinese engineers in the Hubarea
of Balochistan. Two Chinese died on the spot and another died in hospital.
The motorcyclists fled after the incident, he said.
The deputy inspector general said that the guards of
the Chinese engineers were not accompanying them when they were attacked. He
said that police were investigating as to why the guards did not accompanied the
engineers.
Earlier, Chinese consul general Sun Chunye in Karachi
told Xinhua that the three Chinese killed were from a cement research institute
in Hefei of east China's Anhui Province.
There were six Chinese and one Pakistani driver in
the car when the incident occurred in the town of Hub, some 700 km southeast of
Quetta, the Balochistan provincial capital, he said. The other three Chinese
survived with no injury.
Meanwhile, the Baloch Liberation Army has accepted
responsibility of the attack, according to a Geo TV report. One unidentified man
phoned journalists in Quetta and took responsibility of the shooting.
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