Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/21
By: Bien Chin-feng, Sunrise Huang, Chen Wei-ting and Kuo Chung-han

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Forty-nine family members of the 24 Chinese tourists killed in a tour bus blaze July 19, and 21 Chinese officials arrived in Taiwan Thursday afternoon.

After arriving in Taoyuan International Airport at about 4 p.m. via a China Southern Airlines charter plane, the victims’ family members had their mouth cells taken for DNA testing before being escorted to a funeral parlor in Taoyuan’s Zhongli District.

They will check in at Chuto Plaza Hotel in the city’s Taoyuan District later.

A briefing specifically for the families will be held in the hotel at 8:30 p.m. which the press will not be allowed to attend.     [FULL  STORY]