By IANS,
Shijiazhuang : Two Japanese tourists were killed and one remained missing after being trapped in a snow-covered mountain in north China’s Hebei Province, local authorities said late Sunday night.
Two Japanese women, aged 62 and 68, were confirmed dead and a 76-year-old Japanese man remained missing, the Huailai county’s publicity department said in a statement, reported Xinhua.
Another Japanese tourist, 59, and a Chinese man, who works for a Japanese tourist agency, were under treatment at a village clinic as roads out of the mountain were still closed.
The four Japanese tourists and two Chinese tourists climbed a mountain from the Beijing side to tour a section of the Great Wall Saturday morning. The six were trapped in snowstorms after reaching a mountainous region in Huailai county in the neighbouring province of Hebei, according to the statement.