Attacks on Chinese companies in Zambia leave one dead and six injured
Three assailants killed in two incidents and six injured
Two Chinese companies were attacked by armed robbers in a suburb of Zambia’s capital Lusaka on Wednesday, leaving one Chinese worker dead and six injured, local media reported.
Three of the assailants were killed in the incidents while six others were injured.
Four men armed with a firearm and machetes hacked five Chinese workers at the Point and Lime Technologies quarry in what is believed to be an attempted robbery, said local newspaper the Zambia Daily Mail, quoting a statement from Zambia’s police public relations officer Charity Chanda.
Point and Lime Technologies is a company from central China’s Henan province that focuses on stone mining and processing projects.
During the attack, one Chinese worker was shot in the stomach and died later in hospital, and six others were injured, Henan-based newspaper Dahe Daily reported.
Two of the attackers were beaten to death while the other two escaped.
In a separate incident, five men broke into a warehouse at a farm close to the Point and Lime Technologies company.