China's cross-departmental joint working group, embassy mourn deceased compatriots in Pakistan

Members of a Chinese cross-departmental joint working group and Chinese diplomats in Pakistan on Friday (March 29) mourned the five Chinese nationals killed in a terrorist attack while visiting a hospital here.

Laying flowers to their portraits, head of the joint working group Bai Tian and Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong led all the personnel to stand in silence and bow three times.

Ma Mingwei, head of a working group from Energy China and China Gezhouba Group Corporation, said that the five demised compatriots are excellent representatives of the company's overseas projects and witnesses of China-Pakistan friendship. Their sacrifice have enriched the deep China-Pakistan friendship.

Bai, also chief of the Department of External Security Affairs of the Chinese foreign ministry, and Jiang conveyed the care and solicitude of the Chinese government to the company's workers, encouraging them to work together to overcome the difficulties.

Tuesday's terrorist attack claimed the lives of five Chinese and one Pakistani national as they traveled from Islamabad to the Dasu Hydropower Project in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.