Fri. Jan 10th, 2025

CTD arrests 10 terrorists, facilitators involved in attack on Chinese nationals

PESHAWAR (MNP) – The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested more than 10 terrorists and their facilitators involved in the Besham suicide attack. 

Five Chinese nationals were killed when the vehicle they were travelling by was attacked near Besham – a town located in Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A suicide bomber had rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu.

The CTD sources said the network involved in the attack was backed by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the suicide bomber was from Afghanistan.

The explosives-laden vehicle was brought to Dara Zinda Town of DI Khan from Chaman .

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