Four Chinese officials left for Taiwan capital Taipei on Wednesday afternoon Taiwan to assist families of the 26 victims who had died in a major bus accident on Tuesday.
Twenty-six people, including 23 tourists and a tour guide from the Chinese mainland and two local people -- a driver and a tour guide -- were killed when a tour bus crashed into a barrier on a highway and caught fire near Taoyuan Airport in Taiwan on Tuesday.
According to Xinhua news agency, a majority of the tourists were from northeast China's Liaoning Province.
