Image of armed Chinese engineers in Pak doctored

On July 14, a bus explosion killed nine Chinese workers near a hydroelectric project in Pakistan. Officials said the blast could be a terror attack.

Published on:

27 Jul 2021, 7:40 pm

Chennai

Since then, several media outlets churned out reports with two images to claim that Chinese workers have started carrying AK-47s to defend themselves. Alt News ran a check and found that old, unrelated photos were shared as that of Chinese engineers carrying AK-47s while working on the CPEC project.

First published on www.altnews.in

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