An investigation into the tour bus crash in Guangxi would be completed within three weeks, mainland officials said yesterday.
The seven dead were named yesterday as Kwok Chun-yin, aged 37, Tsang Hin-pong, 72, tour guide Ng Wai-sin, in his 20s, Wong Yuk, 47, Mok Yu-pik, 57, Tsang Siu-ling, 48, and Chung Sau-ling, 67.
Their bodies were taken to Nanning funeral parlour on Thursday night. Relatives went to the scene of the accident yesterday and burnt incense and paper offerings.
The crash happened at 10am when the bus, apparently swerving to avoid a cyclist, plunged down a cliff in Pingshan village, Long'an county, about 70km west of Nanning. It was on its way to the De Tian Waterfall on the China-Vietnam border.
Speaking at a press conference in Long'an county, Nanning Area administrative officer Wei Gan said the inquiry would be completed within 20 days.
Recalling the accident, one of the injured tourists, Kwok Ben-li, 13, who was sitting at the back of the coach when the accident happened and was still being treated in hospital, said she only realised something was wrong when she heard other members of her family screaming.
'I was very sleepy at that time. Suddenly, I heard my family members screaming . . . I immediately grasped the handrail and protected my sister sitting next to me. The vehicle then plunged down a cliff,' she said.
