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Taipei Times
Date: Oct 23, 2018
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter, with CNA
The Cabinet yesterday established a task force to investigate Sunday’s deadly train
President Tsai Ing-wen, center, flanked by Presidential Office Secretary-General Chen Chu, to her left, and Minister of Transportation and Communications Wu Hong-mo, behind Tsai, yesterday briefs journalists at the site of a Puyuma Express train derailment in Yilan County. Photo: AP / Presidential Office
accident in Yilan County.
The 15-member task force is led by Minister Without Portfolio Wu Tze-cheng (吳澤成), while Bureau of High Speed Rail Director-General Allen Hu (胡湘麟) serves as executive secretary and spokesman, Cabinet spokeswoman Kolas Yotaka said.
The task force yesterday visited the accident site and held its first meeting to establish the direction of the investigation, she said, adding that in keeping with a directive from Premier William Lai (賴清德), it would check all Puyuma Express trains to determine whether the service should be suspended.
The Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) Safety and Investigation Committee and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ Railway Bureau are also investigating.
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