The China Post
Date: July 26, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Investigators said late Sunday that five
People gather to mourn the victims of a fatal bus inferno that claimed 26 lives, including 24 mainland Chinese from Laioning province, at a funeral parlor in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Monday, June 25. Monday marked the seventh day after the tragedy, an important time in the 49-day Buddhist mourning process. (CNA)
PET bottles filled with gasoline may have exacerbated a bus fire that claimed the lives of all 26 passengers on board last Tuesday.
They maintained that human error may have caused or worsened the inferno.
A bus with 24 mainland Chinese tourists, one Taiwanese tour guide and the driver crashed last week into the outer edge of a guardrail on national highway 2.
Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office on Sunday detected samples of flammable liquid on the bus and confirmed they found five partly destroyed plastic containers on board.
Two bottles were found near the driver’s seat and three on the lower deck of the luggage compartment. There were also traces of gasoline near the driver’s seat and front door.
Prosecutors said the containers had been used to hold gasoline. [FULL STORY]
