The Korean embassy in London issued a travel warning to its citizens after two Korean tourists were mugged in London on Monday night, according to the Chosun Ilbo.
The pair of tourists were accosted in Hyde Park around 11 p.m. as they were walking back to their hotel. Masked robbers took about $1,000 worth of items, including their cell phones but left the tourists unharmed, the newspaper reported.
With the aid of London police, the embassy is investigating whether other Korean tourists suffered any damage. Embassy officials urged Korean visitors to refrain from leaving their quarters in the evening. Should the riots continue, the embassy plan to discuss with the Foreign Ministry whether to raise the travel advisory level.
Elsewhere, video of an injured Malaysian student being robbed by men posing as good Samaritans quickly circulated around the internet, prompting a vocal response from Prime Minister David Cameron.
“There are pockets of our society that are not just broken but frankly sick,” Cameron said, according to the Associated Press.
The video has become synonymous with London’s riots: A young man, bleeding and dazed, is helped from the ground by a group of youths — who promptly unzip his backpack and callously make off with its contents. But who is he? And what happened next?
The young man is 20-year-old Malaysian accounting student Mohammad Asyraf Haziq, who was cycling with a friend in the London neighborhood of East Barking to a gathering to break his fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to a friend, Dzuhair Hanafiah.
The details of his trip are as chilling as the video.
First, a group of about 20 teens and preteens surrounded him. Then they grabbed his bike, took his cell phone and broke his jaw, his friend told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
“The next thing he remembered, his mouth was full of blood,” said Hanafiah, a member of the London Umno club, a society for Malaysian students. “He was just left there.”
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