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IS abductee matches description of missing Chinese

Xinhua, September 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

The description given by Islamic State insurgents of a Chinese citizen they claim to have captured matches a Chinese missing abroad, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday.

"We launched an emergency response immediately after we were informed of the situation," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei told a regular press briefing.

China is firmly opposed to violence against innocent civilians, he said.

IS announced on Wednesday that it had captured a Chinese consultant and a Norwegian man. They were identified in a report in its official online magazine, Dabiq, as Fan Jinghui, a freelance consultant from Beijing, and Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad from Oslo. Endi