China expressed its condolences to South Korea following a school bus accident in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, that killed 12 people, including five South Korean kindergarten pupils.
At a regular press briefing on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China had conveyed its sympathy to the families of the victims and instructed local authorities to spare no effort in dealing with the accident.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that Kong Xuanyou, assistant minister of the Chinese foreign ministry, phoned South Korea's ambassador to China on Tuesday and offered Beijing's support in dealing with the accident.
"China's (governing) party and government leaders are taking the accident very seriously," the Chinese minister told the ambassador, Yonhap reported, citing the foreign ministry in Seoul.
Kong also said Beijing had ordered the regional governments near the site of the accident to handle the aftermath "speedily and smoothly," Yonhap continued.
Twelve people, including 11 kindergarten pupils, were killed early Tuesday when a school bus crashed and burst into flames in a tunnel in Weihai, east China's Shandong Province. The Chinese driver, six Chinese children and five South Koreans kids were killed.
(CGTN's Zou Yun contributed to this report.)
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