Prior to her launch , the 11 of the 80 French naval personnel in Pakistan to supervise the completion of '' Saad '' were killed when their transit bus was struck by a car filled with explosives . Contemporary news accounts reported that the French Chief of the Defence Staff , General Jean-Pierre Kelche , blamed the al-Qaeda for the attack took place on 8 May 2002
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2002 Karachi bus bombing
PNS Saad