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Relatives of Chinese victims in US bus crash back to Shanghai

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-12 00:05

SHANGHAI -- Twelve relatives of Chinese tourists who were killed or injured in a bus crash in the United States returned to Shanghai Wednesday evening on a China Eastern Airlines flight.

Four others, also relatives, are scheduled to arrive in two days.

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A bus carrying 15 Chinese tourists, a driver and a tour guide overturned on US Highway 93 in Arizona near the Hoover Dam on January 30. Six tourists and the guide died. Nine others and the driver were injured.

Six of the injured are still hospitalized in the United States.

The flight, China Eastern Airlines 586, landed at 6:40 p.m.