China says it hasn’t found ‘reason or clues’ behind US worker’s brain injury
US State Department says incident in Guangzhou resembled unexplained illness that befell diplomats in Cuba last year
China has found no clues to determine what caused a US government employee to suffer a brain trauma after experiencing unusual sounds, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
The US State Department has said the incident in the southern city of Guangzhou resembled the still unexplained injuries that befell US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba last year.
“China has conducted a very careful investigation and has given preliminary findings to the US, and we haven’t found the reason or clues that led to the situation mentioned by the US,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular press briefing.
“China has always followed the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations and consular relations to protect the US diplomatic staff and staff from other countries,” Lu said.
The US embassy in Beijing issued a health alert on Wednesday over the incident, while saying it did not know what caused the symptoms or of any similar situations in the country.
The health alert said the employee “recently reported subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure”.
