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ISLAMABAD, July 8 (KUNA) -- Three Chinese workers were gunned down and
another was wounded Sunday evening local time in a robbery attempt near a
northern Pakistani city, said police.
Unknown armed-men tried to snatch money from four Chinese men, working at
an auto workshop, on Charrsadah road about 30 kilometers from Peshawar, the
capital of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), a local senior police
official, Muhammad Ikram, told KUNA by telephone.
Upon resistance, said Ikram, gunmen opened fire that killed three of them
and seriously wounded another. However, he added, the wounded Chinese is said
to be in stable condition.
He said it was totally a robbery case and rejected the impression that it
was linked to the Mosque crisis in Islamabad. This incident took place in view
of the demand from Beijing to Pakistan to take action against the Mosque
vigilantes for kidnapping nine Chinese workers of an acupuncture clinic. (end)
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