BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed condolences and sympathy to the families of victims in a bus crash that killed 19 and injured more than 60 in Hong Kong on Saturday.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent his messages to Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, right after the accident.