HONG KONG, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Four Hong Kong immigration officers have arrived at
Hubei to help a Hong Kong tour experienced a bus crash on June 8 and will
arrange some of the victims home on Friday night.
The accident happened on June 8 afternoon in Hubei province of the Mainland causing deaths
of two women and a man, and some 10 people injured. All were members
of a tour group consisted of 20 Hong Kong residents.
According to the Hong Kong Immigration Department, 11 slightly injured people
will be arranged home on Friday night, while bodies of the deaths were
expected to be sent back to Hong Kong next week.
Principal Immigration Officer P.Y. Cheng and another Immigration Officer from the Beijing
Office of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government and two other
officers from Hong Kong are now in Hubei to help the Hong Kong residents
who were involved in the traffic accident.
Hong Kong Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee expressed on Friday his condolences
and sent his wishes for a speedy recovery to those who are injured.
Lee said the Immigration Department would provide all practicable assistance to the
victims and their families, and had already contacted most of the family members
of the victims in Hong Kong.
Immediately following the accident, the department received eight requests
for assistance.
The tour group, organized by a Chinese mainland travel agent, started their
journey from Shenzhen on June 1. Enditem