Chinese work panel to deal with aftermath of balloon crash in Egypt (3)

（Xinhua） 08:29, February 28, 2013

Deputy Director-General of the Department of Consular Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Qiu Xuejun, who leads the Chinese work panel, receives interview about the hot air balloon crash in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 27, 2013. A Chinese Foreign Ministry work panel arrived in Egypt on Wednesday to deal with the aftermath of a deadly hot air balloon crash, in the wake of nine Hong Kong tourists that died in the tragedy in the country. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)

Also, senior official at Hong Kong Immigration Department, Lee Kwong Wing said "We will work with the Egyptian side to deal with the crisis, and we are stepping up efforts to help the victims' families."

Later on Wednesday, nine family members of the victims and five doctors arrived in Cairo.

A total of 19 tourists were killed and two others injured in a balloon explosion Tuesday morning in Egypt's Luxor governorate. The dead included nine from China's Hong Kong as well as four Japanese, three Britons, two Frenchmen and one Egyptian.

An investigation into the accident has been launched by Luxor prosecution and the Civil Aviation Authority.

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