Parents of Chinese plane crash victims leave for US

Grieving parents of two Chinese teenage girls who died in a plane crash in San Francisco today left for the US, amid anger over reports that one of them was run over by a fire engine after surviving the crash.
Eight of the relatives of two teenage girls who were killed as well as another four relatives of two people who were injured in the Saturday's crash of Asiana Airlines, boarded a flight bound for San Francisco, the local government of Jiangshan in east China's Zhejiang Province said. Two of the victims belong to the Zhejiang Province.
Of the two teenage girls who were killed, one was reported to have been run over by fire engine after she survived the crash and rushed out of the plane.

It evoked angry reactions among Chinese netizens questioning how could such a thing can happen.
A total of 141 Chinese citizens including 70 students were among the 291 passengers aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. The two girls killed in the crash were among a group of 30 students and five teachers from Jiangshan Middle School who were travelling to the United States to attend a summer camp.
The students were on the way to join summer camps. Wealthy Chinese parents send their children abroad for summer camps to improve their English.

Meanwhile local Hongzhou government has suspended overseas study tours after the plane crash.

Quzhou Municipal Education Bureau in Zhejiang has asked schools and related agent institutions to suspend all summer camps and study tours, official media here reported.
The news of the crash has shocked the parents, whose children were on-board the flight. They asked the officials to take clothes and daily necessities for their children, as their children's luggage reportedly went missing or destroyed in the crash.
Mao Xiaojun, the mother of a surviving student from Jiangshan Middle School, said she remained worried about her son.
"My son is upset, as he learnt that two of his classmates died in the plane crash," she said.

Mao Zhengcai, deputy mayor of Jiangshan, said the municipal government has called on Chinese living in San Francisco who came from the city of Jiangshan to provide assistance to the surviving students.
Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday which also injured 182 people.