IS kills two Chinese teachers in Pakistan

Two Chinese teachers who were kidnapped in Pakistan have been killed by Islamic State, the extremist group claims.

Islamic State has killed two Chinese citizens it kidnapped in southwest Pakistan last month, the militant group's Amaq news agency reports.

Armed men pretending to be policemen kidnapped two Chinese language teachers in the Pakistani city of Quetta on May 24.

"Islamic State fighters kill two Chinese people they had been holding in Baluchistan province, southwest Pakistan," Amaq said on Thursday.


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