The framed photos of 26 people who died in a tour bus fire in Taiwan on July 19 are escorted to a memorial hall in Taoyuan city on Monday. (Photo/China News Service)
A plane took the ashes of the 23 victims of a tour bus fire in Taiwan back to Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Tuesday.
The 23 tourists, who died in the bus fire near the Taoyuan Airport in Taiwan on July 19, were cremated on the island and flown back by a Taiwan UNI Air plane on Tuesday night, Dalian Taiwan affairs office said in a statement.
Fifty-one relatives and 20 members of the Dalian city work group accompanied the ashes, it said.
Twenty-six people were killed when a tour bus crashed into a highway barrier and caught fire near Taiwan Taoyuan Airport on July 19. They included 23 tourists and a tour guide from the Chinese mainland, a local driver and a local tour guide.
The tourist group included 14 women, seven men, two girls and a boy.
Each family of the deceased will receive 1.3 million yuan (about 200,000 million U.S. dollars) in compensation. One family has decided to file a lawsuit, the statement said.
