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HK boy among injured in bus crash that killed 16

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Ed Zhang

A Hong Kong resident was among the 19 people injured in a devastating bus crash that killed 16 others on Saturday in Xingshan county, Hubei province.

Local officials said all the injured passengers were sent to hospital and remained in stable condition yesterday. They included a Hong Kong boy identified as Zhang Mingya. His age is not known.

The crash occurred when the bus went off the road and rolled down a 60-metre valley and into the Xiangxi River, a tributary of the Yangtze River.

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The dead included one Macau resident and a resident of Brunei.

Zhang Hong, deputy director of the county's propaganda department, said yesterday that all passengers had been accounted for, and divers had found no additional bodies in the river yesterday.

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The injured were taken to Xingshan People's Hospital. Xingshan is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Yichang city.

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