PARIS, May 8: French shipbuilders, Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), said on Wednesday it was recalling expatriate workers from Pakistan after 11 French nationals were killed and 12 injured in a bomb blast in Karachi.

The French victims were working on a joint Franco-Pakistani project to build three Agosta 90B class submarines.

Of the 11, eight were employed by DCN, which is a division of the French defence ministry, and three were working for DCN by sub-contractors.

A total of 40 French nationals were sent to Karachi to work on the submarine project.—AFP