China’s embassy in Laos has issued a safety warning to its citizens there after a Chinese national was shot dead in Xaysomboun province. Chinese workers ha
BEIJING – China’s embassy in Laos has issued a safety warning to its citizens there after a Chinese national was shot dead in Xaysomboun province.
Chinese workers have increasingly come under attack as companies expand abroad as part of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road plan to build infrastructure with the rest of Asia and beyond, often in politically unstable places.
China and Laos last year agreed to step up security cooperation following a series of attacks on Chinese nationals, including shootings and bomb attacks.
One Chinese national was killed on Friday by an unidentified gunman, the embassy said in a statement posted to its website late on Sunday. It did not give further details.
“The Chinese embassy requested that Laos quickly solve the case and severely punish the killer, and at the same time take practical action to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens and organisations in Laos, ” the embassy said.
