VLADIVOSTOK, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - A female Russian tourist was murdered and another seriously injured by unidentified assailants in the city of Suifenhe in northeast China, a Russian diplomat said Monday.
Igor Agafonov, a Foreign Ministry official in Vladivostok, said a group attacked the two Russians early on Sunday, killing Tatiana Doronina, 35, and injuring Yelena Shtanko, 37.
"The injured woman, Yelena Shtanko, has undergone emergency surgery and there is no threat to her life at present," he said.
The Russian consulate in Shenyang, the capital of the Liaoning province, said Chinese police had detained two suspects in the attack.
"The foreign affairs department of the Suifenhe city administration has officially confirmed the murder of the Russian citizen, and reported that two suspects have been detained by local police," a consulate spokesman said.
The city administration's foreign affairs department declined to comment on the case.
The assault is the fourth fatal attack on Russian tourists in China this year. In mid-June, a Russian citizen was killed and another severely injured in a bar brawl near a night club in the center of the Chinese capital, Beijing.
A few days later, a Russian female tourist from Primorye was found dead in a park in Wudalianchi, northeast China, an area popular with tourists from Russia's Far East.
In February a Russian woman was killed and another injured in a robbery in the city of Heihe, near the Russian border. A resident of the city was later found guilty murdering the woman, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
