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70 Chinese students, teachers on crashed plane

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A preliminary report said two students from East China's Zhejiang province died in a plane crash in San Francisco on Saturday local time.

Based on information obtained from their boarding passes, two female middle school students from Jiangshan city, Zhejiang province, died in the accident, a reply from Asiana Airlines' head office in China to the Jiangshan municipal government said.

But the identities of the dead have not been confirmed by DNA tests yet, according to the reply.

The Ministry of Education confirmed in a statement that 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane.

Among them, four teachers and 30 students were from Zhejiang and six teachers and 30 students were from North China's Shanxi province.

The ministry has contacted officials in charge of education affairs with the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco and asked them to offer all possible help to the students and teachers, the statement said.

It also instructed education departments of Zhejiang and Shanxi as well as schools involved to do their best to help, the statement said.

The municipal government of Jiangshan said the two students were believed to be travelling with a group of middle school students and teachers from Jiangshan on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 to take part in a summer camp in the United States.

Some 30 students and five teachers had planned to travel with the group, but one teacher missed the flight to Seoul and later, the flight from Seoul to San Francisco, according to the municipal government.