| A car packed with explosives went off as a bus carried Chinese engineers to a port project in remote southwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing three of them and injuring eleven other people. The attack occurred just after 9 a.m. local time while the bus took at least 12 Chinese to the Gawadar port, about 300 miles west of Karachi, near the border with Iran, said Sattar Lasi, the chief of police in Gawadar. "A car was parked near the port and it exploded as the bus reached the port," Lasi told The Associated Press. The motive for the attack was not yet known, said Shoaib Suddle, the police chief in Baluchishtan province, where Gawadar is located. "It is premature to say anything at this stage about who was behind it," Suddle said from Quetta, the provincial capital. "We are investigating but there is a possibility it was a remote-control bomb." Lasi said authorities had not found the remains of any bomber inside the white Suzuki car, though the force of the blast would make it hard to determine whether someone was inside. Lasi said only the skeleton of the car remained, and the bus was also heavily damaged, with windows shattered and metal twisted. Eleven people were injured — nine of them Chinese, Lasi said. The others injured were a Pakistani driver and security guard. |