Two Chinese nationals who were killed in an explosion near Pakistan's Karachi international airport on Sunday worked for a power plant, Pakistan's finance minister said on Tuesday.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani separatist group claimed responsibility for a late-night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside the country's largest airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight people, officials and the insurgent group said Monday.

The outlawed Majeed Brigade of the banned outfit Baloch Liberation Army released a statement claiming responsibility for the attack.