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Chinese vice-consul robbed in Russia’s Far East

By RIA Novosti,

Moscow : Unidentified persons robbed a vice-consul of China’s general consulate in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, a local police source said on Sunday.

Three unidentified persons approached the vice consul in a Khabarovsk street on Saturday and forced him to give them 15,000 rubles ($600), a mobile phone, a watch and a diplomatic card, the police source said.

The diplomat estimated the damage at 30,000 rubles ($1,250), the police source said.

Measures are under way to find and arrest the robbers, the police source said.