CHINESE KILLED IN BALOCHISTAN: PAK REVOKES VISA OF KOREAN
Pakistan has revoked the visa of a Korean man running a language school where two Chinese missionaries were believed to have been working before they were abducted by the Islamic State group, the interior ministry said on Friday.
Islamic State said earlier this month via its Amaq news service its fighters had killed the two, who were kidnapped in May by armed men pretending to be security officials in in the southwestern city of Quetta.
“It has been determined after the kidnapping incident that South Korean national Wan Su alias Gilbert was in Pakistan on a business visa but here he opened an Urdu academy and was involved in illegal activities,” read the ministry statement on Friday.
The ministry said earlier this month the Chinese couple Lee Zing Yang (24) and Meng Li Si (26) had been missionaries posing as language teachers, in violation of visa rules, and that had contributed to their abductions.
China said it would investigate whether the couple had been working as missionaries in a country which is 98% Muslim.
“Police had not only cautioned the Chinese couple about the security situation but offered them protection but the Chinese individuals had refused the offer,” read the ministry statement issued on Friday.
The ministry said police were still attempting to conclusively determine whether the Chinese couple had been killed.