Lucky bomb escape for Chinese workers in Pak

May 21, 2013 23:03

A group of Chinese port workers had a providential escape in Karachi today when a bomb targeting their vehicle did not go off as planned, just a day before the arrival of Premier Li Keqiang in Pakistan.

Police said that a major tragedy was averted by good fortune in the city's posh Clifton area when the remote-controlled improvised explosive device aimed at a van carrying the 11 Chinese workers failed to detonate. Police said the IED had been planted in a flower pot at a roadside in Boat Basin in Clifton.

Image: Security officials collect the evidence at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi Tuesday. Photograph: Athar Hussain/Reuters

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