HK immigration officers help bus crash victims in Mainland
www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-09 20:44:24

    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

Editor: Zhu Jin
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