Canadian held in Yantai drug case

The Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday the detention of a Canadian citizen accused of involvement in a drug-related case in Yantai, a coastal city in Shandong province.

Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily news conference that a drug-related case involving foreign students is under investigation and one of the people involved in the case is a Canadian citizen.

Geng also said that the case has nothing to do with a recent drug-related case in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, where a police crackdown resulted in the arrest of 19 people, including 16 foreigners.