CHENNAI, Sept 5: South Korea have pulled out of a hockey tournament in Pakistan citing security concerns, the side’s manager said here on Wednesday.

Cho Sung Jun, here with the team for the Asia Cup tournament, said the side would not be going to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy for security reasons.

The decision came after two suicide bombings on Tuesday ripped through a military bus and a market near the Pakistani army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi, killing 25 people.

South Korea, champions at the 2006 Doha Asian Games, are the second team to withdraw from the Champions Trophy to be held in Lahore in December after Australia pulled out of the event, also for security reasons.

Pakistan has been wracked by violence since the Red Mosque siege in July, an operation that cost more than 100 lives.—AFP