米国人講師４人刺傷 「単発事件」として捜査 中国外務省

【北京ＡＦＰ＝時事】中国吉林省の公園で前日、米国人大学講師４人が何者かに刺された事件で、中国外務省の林剣報道官は１１日の定例会見で、初動捜査の結果、単発事件として捜査を継続していることを明らかにした。（図は、米国人大学講師４人が何者かに刺された事件が起きた中国吉林省の吉林市を示す地図）
　４人は米アイオワ州にあるコーネル・カレッジの講師で、学術交流プログラムを利用して中国に滞在していた。
　林氏によると負傷者は全員、病院搬送後に適切な治療を受け、命に別条はない。
　また同氏はこの単発事件が「米中間の人的交流の正常な発展に影響を与えることはない」と述べた。
　事件について、米国務省の報道官は「中華人民共和国吉林省で刺傷事件が発生したという情報は承知している」とした。一方、アイオワ州選出のアシュリー・ヒンソン米下院議員はＸ（旧ツイッター）への投稿で、コーネル大学の教員が「残忍に刺された」ことに「ぞっとする」と書いた。
　吉林省当局はこの事件について談話を発表していない。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/06/11-19:26）

Four American college instructors working in China were wounded in a stabbing at a public park, their employer said, with Beijing Tuesday describing it as an isolated incident.
The four were on an academic exchange and worked as instructors at Iowa's Cornell College, which said they were wounded in a serious incident.
Beijing on Tuesday confirmed that four foreign teachers had been attacked.
All the wounded were sent to the hospital... and received proper treatment; none of them are in danger of losing their life, spokesman Lin Jian told reporters at the foreign ministry's regular afternoon press conference.
The police preliminarily judged that the case was isolated. Further investigation is under way.
China is generally recognised as one of the safest countries in the world, Lin added.
China... will continue to take relevant measures to effectively protect the safety of all foreigners in China.
This isolated case will not affect the normal development of China-US people-to-people exchanges, he said.
Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson said on X she was horrified that the Cornell College faculty members had been brutally stabbed.
Governor Kim Reynolds said she was in touch with Iowa's federal delegation and the state department in response to this horrifying attack.
Please pray for their full recovery, safe return, and their families here at home, she added.
A US State Department spokesperson said they were aware of reports of a stabbing incident in Jilin, People's Republic of China.
Jilin provincial authorities have not commented on the attack.