07:55 02/07/2015
Beijing - A bus carrying a group of South Koreans fell off a
highway bridge in northeastern China, killing 10 of them, officials said
Thursday.
The accident took place on Wednesday after the vehicle
left the north-eastern 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.
The bus was said to be resting on its top in shallow water under the bridge.
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