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Three Hong Kong tourists killed after car smashes against a truck in New Zealand.
Three Hong Kong tourists died and another was injured when their car collided with a truck and overturned in New Zealand.
Cheung Yat-Cheong, 59, a deputy chief officer at the fire retreat, escaped fatal injuries, but the terrible accident claimed the life of his wife, Ng Yin-wan, 56.
Ng driver Allan Chan Wing-Fai, 60, and his wife, Connie Chong Kwai-tei, 61, all died at the scene.
Both couples were on holiday in the country where the accident occurred at an intersection in the township Luggate, near Wanaka on the South Island on Thursday.
Cheung was airlifted by a rescue helicopter Otago Dunedin hospital.
Photographs of the site showed an articulated lorry blocking the national highway 6, surrounded by emergency teams and their vehicles.
Nearby is the wreckage of the white car rental tourists, crumpled and thrown from the impact of the accident.
After learning of the incident, the Immigration Department of Hong Kong said it had contacted the Office of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong and the Chinese Embassy in Christchurch for more details.
We have been in contact with the family members of victims and offer assistance in accordance with their demands, a spokesman of the department said he said the ministry would keep in touch with the victims' families and the authorities .
Yesterday, the Department of Fire Services confirmed that the injured man is a fire officer to retire, but would not give details.
He said the unit of welfare ministry had been in contact with the family of man and provide all necessary assistance.
Cheung retired fire department there are about two years and his last position was fire officer Assistant Chief.
Both couples were part of a tour group of nine people traveling in two vehicles when the accident occurred at the intersection of National Road 6 and State Highway 8A, south of Wanaka, Thursday afternoon.
The truck driver, who was traveling to Wanaka Cromwell, was shaken by the accident but was not injured.
New Zealand police did not comment on the circumstances of the accident.
It is not known if the car drove into the path of the truck if the truck was going too fast down Luggate Hill, reported local media.
A male cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with a taxi at the same intersection in August last year.
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