Two Chinese nationals killed in blast near Pakistan's Karachi airport

In a statement released on Monday, the militant group said it had “targeted a high-level convoy of Chinese engineers and investors” arriving from Karachi airport. A later statement from the group described it as a suicide attack, and named the perpetrator as Shah Fahad, part of a BLA suicide squad called Majeed Brigade.The attack was carried out using a “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device”, Reuters news agency quoted the BLA as saying.The explosion happened around 23:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Sunday.Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack a “heinous act” and offered his condolences to the Chinese people.”Pakistan stands committed to safeguarding our Chinese friends,” he wrote on X.The Chinese embassy said that the engineers were part of the Chinese-funded enterprise Port Qasim Power Generation Co Ltd, which aims to build two coal power plants at Port Qasim, near Karachi. Thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, many of them involved in creating…