WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A bus carrying a group of Chinese tourists crashed Wednesday near a popular New Zealand tourist town. Chinese officials say they’ve been told six tourists were killed, although police have yet to confirm a number.
Police said the bus rolled on a highway about 20 minutes north of the town of Rotorua.
Liang Zhi, a diplomat from the Chinese Embassy in New Zealand, told The Associated Press that they understand the bus was carrying the driver, a tour guide, and 23 tourists, most of them from the Sichuan province.
Liang said they had been told that six tourists had died and a number more had been injured, but they had not yet been able to confirm all the details with local police. (AP)
