Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/05
By: Wu Jui-chi and Christie Chen

Taipei, April 5 (CNA) Three adults and one child were killed early Thursday in a house fire in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, fire officials said that day.

The Taoyuan Fire Department said it received a report at 4:48 a.m. about a fire at a two-story house in the city’s Taoyuan District.

A total of 26 fire trucks and 81 firefighters were dispatched to the scene, and the fire was extinguished at 5:37 a.m., according to the department.

The four victims — a 44-year-old woman, a 43-year-old man, a 41-year-old man, and a boy — were found dead, their bodies burned beyond recognition, on the second floor of the house, which was partly made of iron sheeting, fire officials said.    [FULL  STORY]