Several Gunmen have stormed on Saturday, a luxury hotel in the southern Pakistan city of Gwadar and at least one shot people. Three armed men had entered the Hotel and shot, said a military spokesman.
The dead were a security guard. The separatist group liberation army of Balochistan known in the short message service Twitter for the Robbery.
The attackers were surrounded in the stairwells, “” said the military spokesman. The guests were in safety. The use is continuing.
Previously, the province had spoken-the interior Minister Ziaullah Langu “up to four armed men” had entered the Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar and “the fire” would have opened. He spoke of “several injured”. The majority of the guests at the Five-star Hotels had been brought in safety. Of the part of the police, it was said, however, that in the building lived only staff.
#UPDATE At least one person has been killed after three gunmen stormed a five-star hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar, the military says https://t.co/kZRrtO5OF1
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 11, 2019
The Hotel is part of a multi-million dollar Chinese infrastructure project in the port city. Gwadar is located in Pakistan’s troubled province of Balochistan.
The city is a site of the Chinese Mega-infrastructure project “New silk road”. Already an “economic corridor” between the port town on the Arabian sea and Kashgar in the Northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang.
part of a nearly 400-Kilometer-long highway from Peshawar to Karachi, to be completed later this year, an airport and a hospital in Gwadar, as well as water power plants.
Pakistan hopes to boost its economy. Many residents of the province of feeling, however, of the profits, which such projects are excluded. Only three weeks ago, had shot acting in Baluchistan, armed men 14 bus passengers. To make known the Robbery of a separatist group.
(oli/sda)
Created: 11.05.2019, 18:35 PM
