CHANGCHUN, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-four family members of 18 Taiwanese tourists injured in a fatal traffic accident in northeast China will on Wednesday night arrive in Yanji, capital of the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian, Jilin Province.
Meanwhile, two senior doctors dispatched by the provincial health authorities will also arrive Wednesday night to help treat the injured.
Earlier report said all of the 18 injured Taiwanese tourists were transferred to the Yanbian Hospital in the city.
Twelve were described as seriously injured, including a couple who were transferred to the new hospital on Tuesday morning and are still in critical condition, said Wei Jiuping, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian.
Wang Ying, head of the People's Hospital of Wangqing County, said 69-year-old Yen Wenhsiong suffered compound injuries while his 60-year-old wife, Yang Suiying, suffered fractures.
Before the transfer, all the injured had received treatment at the People's Hospital, where Yen had undergone surgery, said Wang.
Jin Chengmin, deputy head of the prefecture's public health bureau, said the Yanbian Hospital had briefly reported a shortage of type A blood after it received the tourists.
The local health authorities sent the message to local residents through media. By Wednesday noon, 59 local residents had donated blood, some of which was given to the injured tourists.
The traffic accident occurred at 9:40 a.m. on Monday on a highway in Wangqing County when a 20-member Taiwanese tourist group was traveling from Heilongjiang Province to Jilin. Their bus overturned and plunged into a river on the 51-km Laosong Highway.
Two Taiwanese women and the bus driver from the Chinese mainland were killed. The dead tourists were 66-year-old Lee Lin Ching-miao and Leu Hsiu-ching, 62. The other 18 tourists were all injured.
The tourist group was on the second leg of a ten-day tour through the three northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning. Enditem
