VLADIVOSTOK, February 26 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian woman was stabbed to death and another wounded in the city of Heihe, in Heilongjiang Province in southeast China, the administration of a neighboring Russian region said Monday.
The two women, both residents of the Amur Region in Russia's Far East, were attacked late Sunday, the press service of the region's administration said, citing security officials. One of the tourists died on the spot and her bag was stolen.
The regional administration said the governor of Amur intends to urge the Heihe city authorities to do all they can to solve the crime and punish the perpetrators.
"Amur Governor Leonid Korotkov is seriously concerned by the personal security of Russian citizens visiting Heihe," a spokesman for the regional administration said.
In February 2005, five Russian men were stabbed at a disco in Heihe, one later dying of his wounds.
In another recent deadly attack, two female Russian tourists were shot dead on a beach in Thailand's eastern resort town of Pattaya last Saturday.
The bodies of the women, aged 25 and 30, were found on Pattaya's Jomtien Beach, a popular destination for foreign tourists located 150 kilometers from Bangkok.
