On May 24, 2017, armed men pretending to be policemen kidnapped two Chinese language teachers in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Anwar ul Haq Kakar, a Baluchistan government spokesman, said "A Chinese couple has been kidnapped," adding that officials had earlier mistaken the wounded passerby for a security guard. A passer by who tried to stop the kidnappers was injured. China's official news agency Xinhua reported that China's embassy in Islamabad confirmed two of its nationals had been kidnapped. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment sent by Reuters after office hours. Separately, Quetta police chief Razza Cheema said the teachers did not work on the Beijing-funded China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as they did not have guards. Pakistan provides security for all Chinese workers on CPEC projects in Baluchistan. he said "Armed men took the couple into custody at gunpoint when they were coming out from the center." He disclosed that another Chinese woman narrowly evaded the kidnappers outside a language center in Jinnah, on the city's outskirts.