Five Chinese nationals and a Pakistani driver have been killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on March 26.

The six people were killed after a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers.

The convoy was on its way from Islamabad to Dasu, the site of a key hydroelectric dam being constructed by a Chinese company.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: An explosive-laden vehicle crashed into another vehicle in Bisham tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla on Tuesday, resulting in the killing of at least six people including five Chinese nationals. According to local journalists .Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan.

A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Mohammad Ali Gandapur, the regional police chief said .Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in the attack," Gandapur said.

Bisham Station House Officer (SHO) Bakht Zahir told Pakistan pressthat the incident was a “suicide blast” and the authorities concerned were collecting the evidence. Security arrangements were tightened at the spot and the bodies were being shifted to a hospital, he further said.