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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Grieving Family Members of Air Crash Victims Being Cared for

The families of the 112 victims killed in the May 7 air crash are receiving help and sympathy from many sectors of society.


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The families of the 112 victims killed in the May 7 air crash are receiving help and sympathy from many sectors of society.

After the air crash, senior Chinese leaders, including President Jiang Zemin, Premier Zhu Rongji, Vice-President Hu Jintao and Vice-Premier Li Lanqing, ordered all-out efforts to rescue possible survivors.

On May 10, Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo visited family members of some of the victims in Dalian.

Visibly upset, the vice-premier shook hands with crashed airline passenger, Song Guanghua's family members and conveyed to them the condolences of President Jiang and Premier Zhu.

China Northern Airlines, the airline at center of the accident, issued letters of condolence on May 8, to all families of the victims, saying that the company would do its best to investigate the cause of the crash.

Dalian's leading local officials, including the mayor, Li Yongjin, also visited those victims' families who were in Dalian.

The Dalian municipal government selected 149 government functionaries who together with 138 staff members from the airline company took care of crash victims' family members who were in five local hotels.

Governments from nearly 10 provincial areas, including Heilongjiang province, Beijing municipality and Hubei province, also sent representatives to Dalian with condolences for the families of any local citizens who died in the crash.

In addition, four psychologists from Beijing University and the Beijing-based Anding Hospital have been invited to Dalian to provide counseling for family members.

The China Northern Airlines MD-82 passenger plane plunged into Dalian Bay less than 10 km (6.215 miles) from the coast at 21:37 Tuesday, shortly after the captain reported a fire in the cabin.


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