On 14 July 2021, a bus carrying

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workers in the Dasu area of

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, fell into a ravine after an explosion, killing 13 people, including nine Chinese citizens and four Pakistanis, and injured 28 others.

The bombing

The site of the bombing was near a hydroelectric project where Chinese and Pakistani workers had been working together for several years. The bus fell into a ravine as a result of the attack. The injured were taken by ambulance helicopters to a hospital in Dasu city, 10 km away. Muhammad Hasnain and Muhammed Ayaz, who were identified as

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members and masterminds of the attack, were arrested and sentenced to death in November 2022.

Background to the assassination

An editorial in the

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, the official newspaper of the

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, described the bombing as a carefully planned act of

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, the worst attack on Chinese citizens in recent years. On 12 August 2021, Pakistani Foreign Minister

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said that " Afghanistan’s soil was used for the terrorist attack and the investigators were “clearly looking at the traces of its planning and executing meeting with the nexus of

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and

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revealing 'Indian-Afghan nexus' behind this attack".

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