Terrorist Attack Near Pakistan’s Karachi Airport Kills 2 Chinese, Injures 8

Two Chinese nationals were killed, and at least eight more people were injured in an explosion Sunday night near the international Karachi Airport in southern Pakistan, in the latest deadly attack on Chinese in Pakistan. The Chinese Embassy said it was a “terrorist attack,” and the U.S.-designated terrorist group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) took credit for the attack in a statement emailed to journalists on Monday. BLA claimed the attack was carried out using an improvised explosive device transported by a suicide bomber in a vehicle, targeting Chinese engineers at Pakistan’s largest airport. Local police and government reported that a tanker had exploded around 11 p.m. on Sunday, and video footage showed flames engulfing cars after the explosion. There was a heavy military deployment at the airport, which was cordoned off....