Police had intelligence reports of attack on Chinese nationals: Karachi police chief

• In light of intelligence reports security was also provided to Chinese nationals, says Karachi police chief.
• Ghulam Nabi Memon says a student of Karachi University was used for suicide bombing. 
• Karachi University rejects the report of the suicide bomber studying at the varsity.

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KARACHI: Additional Inspector General Ghulam Nabi Memon on Tuesday said that the police had intelligence reports regarding an attack on the Chinese nationals in the city.

In light of the intelligence reports, security was provided to the foreign nationals, he said.   

The statement from the Karachi Police chief came after a female suicide bomber blew herself up near a van at Confucius Institute — a Chinese language teaching centre at Karachi University. Four people, including three Chinese nationals, were killed while four others sustained injuries. The deceased Chinese nationals were identified as the director of the Confucius Institute Huang Guiping, Ding Mupeng, Chen Sai, and their Pakistani driver, Khalid.

“The police had received reports regarding security threats to Chinese nationals and security was also provided to them, however, no intelligence report of suicide attack through a female bomber was received,” the top police official said while speaking on Geo News program Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath.

Ghulam Nabi Memon said a student of the Karachi University was used for the suicide bombing, however, investigations are underway regarding how the explosives were dispatched inside the university.

Meanwhile, Karachi University has rejected the report of the female suicide bomber studying at the varsity.

According to the spokesperson, there is no record of a female student studying at the campus by the name of Shazi Baloch.

“However, a student by the name of Shazi Baloch was studying in KU’s Physics Department, but now she has passed out,” said the spokesperson.