Injured Taiwan tourists fly home
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-19 15:37
Medical staff assist an injured Taiwan tourist aboard a microbus.
Fourteen Taiwan tourists who have been receiving medical treatment in northeast
China's Jilin Province after a bus crash have flied home by chartered plane on
Tuesday, Sep 19, 2006. [Xinhua]
YANJI, Jilin -- A charter plane with 14 Taiwan tourists aboard who
were injured in a September 11 bus crash left Yanji Airport in northeast China's
Jilin Province at 7:48 a.m. on Tuesday for Taiwan.
The plane is expected to pass by Hong Kong and arrive at the Taipei Airport
at 1 p.m., sources from the International SOS North Asia said.
An accident occurred at 9:40 a.m. on September 11 on a highway in Wangqing
County of Jilin, when a 20-member Taiwanese tourist group were traveling from
neighboring Heilongjiang Province to Jilin. The bus first crashed into the
protection rail on the highway and then fell off 26 meters into a river.
Two Taiwanese women and the bus driver from the Chinese mainland were killed
and 18 others were all injured.
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