One Dead, Three Injured In Kyrgyzstan Blast On Chinese Embassy
MEP: One person has been killed and three others wounded in a powerful explosion that rocked the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, according to local media and officials.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said a car full of explosives exploded inside the compound and quoted Deputy Prime Minister Janysh Razakov as describing the blast as “a terrorist act”.
The chief of security at the Chinese embassy told the local AKIpress news agency that no Chinese were hurt.
Employees of the Chinese mission and those at the nearby US Embassy were immediately evacuated after the explosion.
As a result of the explosion, only the suicide bomber terrorist died. Security guards were injured, BBC reported.
Kyrgyz authorities conducted several anti-terrorism operations in Bishkek in 2015.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
