KARACHI, May 9: French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, who arrived here on Thursday morning at the head of a 30-member delegation, later visited the Aga Khan Hospital and inquired after the health of French nationals wounded in the bomb blast and admitted there on Wednesday.

She was accompanied by Federal Minister for Information and Media Development Nisar A. Memon, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza and French Ambassador to Pakistan Yannick Gerard.

She also visited the site of the incident on Club Road in front of the Sheraton Hotel and saw the wreckage of the bus of the victims.

Nisar Memon and the chief of Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza briefed her on the tragic incident.

She also went to the PNS Shifa Hospital, where the bodies of French nationals killed in the suicide bomb attack have been kept. She laid a wreath on each coffin.—PPI