The Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan was hit by a suicide attack on Tuesday leaving several injured, in a development likely to worry Beijing as it steps up investments in Central Asia under its “One Belt One Road” initiative.
Citing Kyrgyzstan’s health ministry, China’s state broadcaster – CCTV – said in a post on its Sina Weibo microblog that a car carrying a bomb had rammed the gates of the embassy, after which there had been an explosion inside its grounds leading to death of at least one person and the injury of at least two.
Photos published by Kyrgyz media showed the windows of the embassy had been shattered and debris littered the compound.