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Bodies of murdered engineers flown home
By Le Tian (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-02-18 08:11
The bodies of three Chinese engineers who were shot dead in Pakistan on
Wednesday returned home on Friday via a Pakistani air force plane.
The bodies of three
Chinese engineers killed in Pakistan are airlifted home February 17,
2006. [newsphoto] | Investigations are focusing on why no guards escorted the engineers the day
when they were attacked. Local police usually accompanied the group during their
travels in the country.
The special
plane carrying the bodies landed at Urumqi airport in the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region on Friday. It is scheduled to arrive at Luogang Airport in
Hefei in East China's Anhui Province on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, 10 other Chinese engineers who worked together with the
victims returned to Hefei. They are all from Hefei Cement Research & Design
Institute, and were in Pakistan to offer technical services for the construction
of a cement factory there.
The guards of the Chinese engineers were not accompanying them when they were
attacked, local police officer Pervez Zahoor was quoted by Xinhua News Agency as
saying.
"Police are investigating as to why the guards did not
do so that day," he said.
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