4 Chinese killed in Utah bus accident identified

PANGUITCH, Utah - Authorities in Utah on Saturday identified the four Chinese tourists killed in a bus crash in the US state, and the tour company is dispatching employees from China to help those injured.

Three women and one man perished in the crash on a highway running through the red rock landscape of Utah on Friday. The victims have been identified as Ling Geng, 68, Xiuyun Chen, 67, Zhang Caiyu, 62, and Zhongliang Caiyu, 65. They were all from Shanghai.

They were part of a tour group made up of 29 tourists and one leader. They came from Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Heilongjiang, according to a news report on the media website huanqiu.com. The tour leader came from Hebei province, near Beijing, according to the Zhejiang Online news site.