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Summary A Chinese women was shot dead along with a male companion by unknown attackers in Peshawar.
A Chinese woman was shot dead with a male companion on Tuesday in Jahangir Pura area of Peshawar, police said.They were killed by gunmen on motorbikes while walking in the Kohati bazaar in the historic centre of the northwestern city, police said. The motive of the shooting and why the Chinese woman was in Peshawar was not immediately clear.Those who were killed are one man carrying a Pakistani ID card and one woman carrying a Chinese passport, police official Tahir Ayub told AFP.They were walking in the Kohati Bazaar when gunmen on motorbikes shot them and fled, he said. The woman was aged about 40 and the Pakistani man was named as Suleiman Shams, 22.Police found a Chinese passport with a Pakistani tourist visa inside, a laptop, digital camera and biscuits in the womans bag, Ayub said.It was the fifth shooting or bomb attack in Pakistans northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since Thursday, raising fears that violence is again on the rise following a relative decline in unrest in recent months.Peshawar is a city of 2.5 million near the Afghan border and has long been on the frontline of violence blamed on a five-year Taliban insurgency led by militants opposed to the governments alliance with the United States.Shamsul Arifeen, the father of the Pakistani man, said his son was on vacation from studying English literature at the prestigious Government College University in Lahore, and he had told him he was working as a translator.My son told me that he knew a Chinese and wanted to work for her as a translator while she was in Peshawar. I told him not to get involved in this thing as the environment was hostile, but he insisted, Arifeen told AFP.Hospital staff at the main Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar that received the bodies said the woman was dressed in a black jacket, black shirt, black trousers and high-heeled shoes. --AFP
