At a meeting in the province last week, Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Van Ngan, head of the Nha Trang police department informed that many foreign tourists, especially Russians, have been robbed during the last two years.
However, local police has met many obstacles in their investigation due to a shortage of personnel and language barrier. Moreover, local tourism agencies do not provide enough information about their customers.
Recently, the Consulate General of Russia in HCMC has proposed Khanh Hoa province apply measures to retrieve Russian tourists’ robbed properties.
Nguyen Chien Thang, chairman of the provincial People’s People Committee, said at the meeting that protecting tourists is a thing that the province needs to do for its survival since the province’s economy depends on tourism.
In related news, on October 17, a 22-year-old Dutch Ruben Engelhardt was beaten unconscious after he tried to prevent five men from robbing Charlotte, a French woman, on Tran Phu Street in Nha Trang.
The robbers kept attacking Ruben until she agreed to let the robbers keep the camera and take all of the money on her.
Before leaving the scene, those men took all of the money and papers from the collapsed Ruben.
(Tuoitrenews)
