Female grad student behind suicide attack at Pakistani university

KARACHI, April 27 Reuters  -  A woman suicide bomber who killed 3 Chinese teachers in Pakistan was a teacher who had enrolled for a master’s degree months before her attack, carried out on behalf of separatist insurgents, a Pakistani official said, Wednesday.  

The blast detonated by the 30-year-old, Tuesday blew up a minivan outside Karachi University’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language and cultural centre, killing her, the 3 Chinese teachers and a Pakistani driver.  
A separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) based in Balochistan, said the mother of 2, who held a graduate degree in zoology and was studying for another, had volunteered for the attack targeting China, whose investment projects in Balochistan they oppose.  

For years, suicide bombing in Pakistan have been a tactic of Islamist militants, usually carried out by men or boys. The Baloch separatists said this was their first suicide attack by a woman and warned of more.