Two killed in Pakistan airport bombing

At least two people have been killed and at least eight injured after an explosion outside Pakistan’s busiest airport, according to officials, in a suspected separatist attack. The cause of the blast at Karachi airport, which happened around 11pm local time, was not independently verified. However, Zia-ul-Hasan Lanjar, the interior minister for Sindh province, told GEO News that it was suspected to be an improvised explosive device strike that had targeted foreigners. A home ministry official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that it was an attack on Chinese nationals. In a statement emailed to journalists, the separatist militant group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed it carried out the attack using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeting Chinese nationals, including engineers. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: .