VLADIVOSTOK, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian tourist was killed and another seriously injured early Sunday in the city of Suifenhe in northern China, a Russian diplomat said Monday.
Igor Agafonov, a Foreign Ministry official in Vladivostok, said a group of unidentified assailants attacked two Russian female tourists, 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.
Chinese police have launched a probe into the attack, and the Russian consulate general has requested a thorough investigation into the crime by Chinese authorities.
The assault is the fourth fatal attack on Russian tourists in China this year.
In mid-June, a Russian citizen was reportedly 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 killed 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 following a robbery in the city of Heihe, near the Russian border. A resident of the city was later found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
