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Compensation for plane crash victims underway
22/11/2004 20:55

Chinese insurance companies are checking the information of policy holders who died in the Sunday-morning plane crash in north China's Inner Mongolia.

The Baotou Life Insurance Co. has organized its 100 staff into several groups to check-up on information of policy holders through Internet.

Initial investigation showed 25 of the 47 plane crash victims had bought accident insurance. One passenger bought two policies. The families of each victim will receive a compensation of 400,000yuan (48,192 US dollars).

Four passengers had bought policies of the Ping An Insurance Co.Ltd. The company is making investigations in accordance with the ID card numbers of the victims in an effort to provide compensation to the family member of the victims as soon as possible.

A CRJ-200 plane, carrying 47 passengers and six crew members from Baotou to Shanghai, crashed in a park lake in Baotou about 8:20 a.m. Sunday shortly after it took off. All of the people aboardand a man on the ground were killed. The remains of 54 victims, including one from Indonesia, have been found.



 Xinhua