China bus accident kills 11 South Koreans

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2 Jul 2015 - 3:55pm

China bus accident kills 10 South Koreans

"Death toll rises to 11 after Jilin bus accident, 10 S. Korean tourists and a Chinese driver died," CCTV posted on Twitter.

Source: AAP
2 Jul 2015 - 1:43 PM UPDATED YESTERDAY 3:55 PM

A bus carrying a group of South Koreans has fallen off a highway bridge in northeastern China, killing 10 people, officials say.

The accident took place on Wednesday after the vehicle left the northeastern Chinese city of Ji'an and was about halfway to its destination of Dandong, which borders North Korea, the official Xinhua News agency said.

The Ji'an government said on its official microblog that 10 people died, all of them South Korean.

Earlier state media reports had said two of the victims were Chinese.

South Korean officials said 26 South Koreans were on the bus as part of a 140-person delegation of mainly South Korean government employees.

They were in China to tour historical sites, including places where Korean independence fighters resisted Japan's colonial rule before the end of World War II, according to officials from the South Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs.

The bus was part of a six-bus caravan, South Korean officials said.

Photos circulating online showed the bus resting on its top in shallow water under the bridge.

 

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Chinese driver in bus plunge dead, raising death toll to 11

2015/07/02 10:38

JIAN, China, July 2 (Yonhap) -- The Chinese driver of a passenger bus carrying a group of South Koreans that plunged off a bridge in northeastern China was pronounced dead Thursday, South Korean officials said Thursday, raising the death toll to 11.

Ten South Koreans, mostly government employees, were killed in the accident on Wednesday in the northeastern Chinese city of Jian while on a training program organized by the South Korean government.

A total of 26 South Koreans were on the bus at that time and the 16 injured were being treated and their conditions were not life-threatening.

Witnesses say the accident occurred at around 3:30 p.m. (local time) Wednesday, with the bus plunging 15 meters off the bridge.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

Officials at the South Korean Consulate in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang have been sent to Jian.

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S. Korean home affairs minister apologizes for bus accident in China

2015/07/02 10:36

SEOUL, July 2 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean home affairs minister apologized Thursday for a bus accident in China that killed 10 South Koreans, mostly government officials.

The bus, carrying 26 South Koreans, veered off a bridge in the northeastern Chinese city of Jian and fell into a river about 15 meters below on Wednesday as it was heading to the border city of Dandong.

The victims were part of a 140-person delegation of mainly government employees. The victims, nine of them public servants, were traveling in China on a training program organized by an institute affiliated with the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs.

"I offer a sincere apology to the people that the accident occurred while on a field trip," Minister of Security and Public Administration Chong Jong-sup said at press briefing on Thursday.

The victims were in China to tour historical sites, including places where Korean independence fighters resisted Japan's colonial rule before the end of World War II, according to the ministry.

Chong said that a South Korean consular official based in the nearby city of Shenyang has been dispatched to the scene of the accident.

"An emergency response team composed of 20 officials was also dispatched to the scene earlier in the day," Chong added.

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