Chinese victim workers back home

A Chinese charter plane carrying coffins of 11 Chinese workers killed in Afghanistan arrived in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province Monday night, where 10 of the casualties were from.

Chinese central government agencies and local governments, concerned companies, the relatives, Afghan vice-minister for public works Mohammad Yaqub and Afghan Ambassador to China Qiamuddin Rai Barlas attended a receiving ceremony at the Changbei Airport.

Sun Gang, vice governor of Jiangxi Province, on behalf of the Chinese government, expressed condolence to the casualties and sympathy to the relatives, saying the local government will do its utmost to help the relatives' living.

Yaqub, on behalf of the Afghan government, appreciated the Chinese government and Chinese people for their help in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, saying the terrorists' conspiracy to ruin the Afghanistan-China friendship will never be success.

Ten of the casualties' remains were transported to the Shangrao City, the victims' home, after the receiving ceremony. The other one will be cremated in Nanchang and brought back to his hometown in east China's Shandong Province by the relatives.

Those workers were killed in a terrorism attack in a project compound in Jelogir area, 36 kilometers away of Kunduz city in Afghanistan last Thursday, five others injured.

Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao strongly condemned the attack, instructed related Chinese government agencies to spare no efforts in rescuing the wounded and help the living of the relatives.

Chinese government departments, involving the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Commerce, local governments and concerned companies have carried out different measures, such as sending working groups, to deal with the aftermath.

International communities also expressed deep concern over the incident. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UN Security Council, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, French President Jacques Chirac, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi strongly condemned the terrorist attack

Injured workers back home

Four Chinese construction workers injured in terrorist attack that occurred in Afghanistan flew back to China on June 14 Monday on a large civil plane to their home in east China's Shandong Province.

The Boeing 757 plane from China South Airlines arrived in Ji'nan, capital of Shandong at 10:55 p.m. Monday after about seven hours of flight from Afghan capital Kabul.

To ensure a sound trip of the injured Chinese workers, the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has not only arranged best doctors and company staff to escort the injured, butalso prepared necessary medicines and facilities for them.

Officials from the provincial government and the CRCC met the plane at the airport.

Upon their arrival, Xi Shouzhong and Wang Jinsheng from Shandong Province and Jiang Changquan and Xu Qisong from east China's Jiangxi Province were immediately sent to the Shandong Provincial Hospital.

Terrorists stole into the camp of a Chinese road contractor in Kunduz province, 250 kilometers (150 miles) north of Kabul, on Thursday, spraying the workers with gunfire as they slept in a row of tents.

Eleven Chinese and the camp's sole Afghan armed guard were killed and five Chinese were injured in the attack, making it the deadliest on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban regime.

The other injured, Zheng Mingyi from Shandong Province stays inAfghanistan being treated upon his own will.

A military plane carrying bodies of the 11 killed in the attack also arrived in east China's Jiangxi Province on Monday

Source: Xinhua