Five Japanese laborers in Pakistan barely escape a suicide attack that was intended for their car

In Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, three onlookers were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest next to a vehicle containing Japanese autoworkers. The autoworkers barely survived the assault, according to the police.

According to local police commander Arshad Awan, the five Japanese nationals were employed at Pakistan Suzuki Motors in an industrial region, which was the destination of the vehicle. He added that after being attacked, the police accompanying the Japanese fired fire, killing a suicide bomber accomplice whose remains were discovered nearby the assault site.

He said, “Every Japanese person who was the attack’s target is safe.”

Both Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan condemned the assault on the Japanese nationals. They complimented the police in different remarks for their prompt action in stopping the assault. They also prayed for the quick recovery of those injured in the incident and pledged to eradicate terrorism.

Images from local TV outlets during the incident showed a vehicle that was wrecked as police arrived on the site. The three bystanders who were hurt in the incident, according to Awan, were in stable condition at a hospital.

According to Tariq Mastoi, a senior police official, authorities were accompanying the van after learning of potential assaults on foreign workers in Pakistan who are engaged in a variety of Chinese-funded and unrelated enterprises. He added that the assault was thwarted by the guards and police in a timely manner, and both assailants were dead.

Although no one took credit for the incident right away, suspicions will probably go to the Pakistani Taliban or a minor separatist organization that has increased its assaults on security personnel in recent years. Chinese workers in Pakistan engaged in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which encompasses several megaprojects including building roads, power plants, and agricultural fields, have also been targeted by insurgents.

Five Chinese people and their Pakistani driver perished in March when a suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan crashed his car packed with explosives into a car they were driving to work at the largest hydropower project in Pakistan, the Dasu Dam.

Nonetheless, there haven’t been any assaults of this kind on Japanese employees in Pakistan.

The biggest metropolis in Pakistan, Karachi also serves as the provincial capital of Sindh in the south.