Accompanied by family members, 11 Malaysians with Chinese descent, who were injured last Friday in a traffic accident in north China's Shanxi Province, on Thursday left China for home by a chartered plane.

According to the Shanxi Provincial Office of Foreign Affairs, two other seriously injured still stayed in hospital for further treatment.

The International SOS sent a 9-member medical team to take care of the injured on the plane, sources with the office said.

The remains of three Malaysians with Chinese descent who were killed in the accident were cremated on Tuesday, and their ashes had been taken back to Malaysia by family members, the sources said.

The remains of a fourth victim, also a Chinese-Malaysian, are to be sent back to Malaysia according to the wish of the victim's family members.

The four people were killed on the spot in the traffic accident on Friday evening, when a bus carrying 17 Chinese-Malaysian tourists, a Chinese driver and a Chinese tour guide fell into a ravine while traveling on a highway in Wenshui County, about 80 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, the provincial capital.

The 17 Chinese-Malaysian tourists were touring Shanxi and the neighboring Shaanxi Province while seeking family roots.

(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2006)