Woman graduate student behind suicide attack that killed three Chinese teachers at Pakistani university

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KARACHI: A woman suicide bomber who killed three Chinese teachers in Pakistan was a teacher who had enrolled for a master's degree months before her attack, carried out on behalf of separatist insurgents, a

in Pakistan was a teacher who had enrolled for a master's degree months before her attack, carried out on behalf of separatist insurgents, a Pakistani official said on Wednesday .

A separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army based in the south-western province of Balochistan, said that the mother of two, who held a graduate degree in zoology and was studying for another, had volunteered for the attack targeting China, whose investment projects in Balochistan they oppose. For years, suicide bombings have been a tactic of militants in Pakistan, usually carried out by men or boys. The Baloch separatists said that this was their first suicide attack by a woman and warned of more.

A Pakistan interior ministry official who declined to be identified said that the woman, a science teacher from Balochistan, had signed up for a second master's degree at Karachi University about five months ago.

 

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