One of two killed in plane crash holds Chinese passport

One of the two killed in the Asiana Airlines crash landing at San Francisco airport was found to hold Chinese passport, South Korea's foreign ministry said Sunday.

"We sent an official at our San Francisco consulate general to where dead bodies were placed. According to the verification by a coroner there, one (of the two killed) held Chinese passport. The remaining one has yet to be identified as the autopsy was not done, " Lee Jung-gwan, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told an emergency news briefing.

Lee expected a number of Chinese to be injured as 141 Chinese citizens were among the 291 passengers aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.

The Boeing 777-200 passenger plane bound for San Francisco from Seoul crashed upon landing and burned partly at the airport.