Unknown event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Besham in Shangla District area, Pakistan on Wed 27th March 2024

At least six people, five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, were killed in an explosion when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber in the Besham area of Shangla District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on March 26, reports The Express Tribune. A convoy of 13 vehicles, nine of them carrying Chinese nationals and three escorting vehicles of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, were on their way to the Dasu Hydropower Project in Upper Kohistan from Islamabad, when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the convoy, targeting a bus carrying Chinese nationals, said Malakand Division Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mohammad Ali Khan Gandapur. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a statement denying involvement in the attack.