Chengdu -- More than 50 tourists were confirmed dead on Thursday in Jiuzhaigou, a tourist attraction in southwest China's quake-hit Sichuan Province, local officials said.
The victims included 35 people whose coach were buried by a landslide. The two other people on the coach were badly injured, according to the emergency management office of Aba prefecture, Sichuan.
The office said as of 8 pm Wednesday more than 10,000 tourists were stranded in Aba, including about 2,900 in Jiuzhaigou and 7,058 in Songpan County.
Yang Changqing, secretary-general of Aba prefectural government, said 1,200 tourists were stranded in Maoxian County of Aba.
There were no reports of deaths or injuries of foreign tourists.
The local government was evacuating the stranded tourists by road and air.
From ChinaDaily.com.cn
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成都——据当地官员称:5 0多名在九寨沟景区旅游的游客被证实在地震中遇难。
阿坝县政府秘书长杨常青说, 1200名游客滞留在阿坝茂县。
暂时没有外国游客的伤亡报告。
当地政府正在利用公路和航空来疏散滞留旅客。
——转自中国日报网