KARACHI: Additional Inspector General Ghulam Nabi Memon said on Tuesday that police received intelligence reports about an attack on Chinese nationals in the city.
Security was provided to foreign nationals in light of intelligence reports, he stated.
The police chief’s statement came after a female suicide bomber blew herself up near a van at Karachi University’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language teaching center. Four people were killed, including three Chinese nationals, and four others were injured. Huang Guiping, director of the Confucius Institute, Ding Mupeng, Chen Sai, and their Pakistani driver, Khalid, was identified as the deceased Chinese nationals.
“The police received reports of security threats against Chinese nationals and provided them with security, but no intelligence report of a suicide attack carried out by a female bomber was received,” the top police official said on a television program.
Ghulam Nabi Memon stated that a student from Karachi University was used in the suicide bombing, but investigations into how the explosives were delivered inside the university are ongoing.
Meanwhile, Karachi University has denied reports that a female suicide bomber was a student there.
According to the spokesperson, there is no record of a female student named Shazi Baloch studying on the campus.
“However, a student named Shazi Baloch was enrolled in KU’s Physics Department but has since dropped out,” the spokesperson stated.
