The identity of 14 Hong Kong residents in bus crashed near the Red Sea on Jan. 31 had been confirmed, a Hong Kong official said on Thursday.

Linda So, Principal Assistant Secretary for Security, said the victims included six men, seven women and a boy. Of the 20 injured, five are being treated in hospitals in Cairo, four in Hurghada and three have been flown to Paris. The rest have been discharged and are staying in a hotel.

So said that as most of the survivors want to return to Hong Kong, the travel agency will make arrangements and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government will facilitate the process.

Temporary travel documents will be issued to those who lost their passports and immigration officers will help family members obtain death certificates, So said, adding the HKSAR government has asked Egyptian authorities to facilitate the transport of those killed.

Chow Wing-keung, sales director of Jetour, which organized the tour to Egypt, said at a press conference that the identity of all the 14 victims has been confirmed and Jetour will inform their relatives but Jetour will not declared the names of the victims unless they get their relatives' approval.

Chow added that one woman from the tour group went missing after she was released from hospital perhaps because of the language difference. However according to reports from Hong Kong media, the missing woman had been found in a Hurghada hotel.

Fourteen people from a 43-member tour were killed when their bus crashed off a road and flipped on to its roof shortly after leaving the Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Tuesday morning.

(Xinhua News Agency February 3, 2006)