Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-21
By: Tai Ya-chen, Sunrise Huang and Y.F. Low, Central News Agency
Premier Lin Chuan (林全) on Thursday directed related agencies to re-examine low-cost tours for Chinese nationals, after 24 tourists from China were killed in a fire that broke out in their tour bus two days ago.
Lin gave the directive in a weekly Cabinet meeting, during which a moment of silence was observed for the victims, who also included two Taiwanese, according to Cabinet spokesman Tung Chen-yuan (童振源).
The accident, the worst involving Chinese tourists in Taiwan since Beijing began to allow its citizens to visit Taiwan in 2008, occurred when the tour group was on its way to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to catch a flight back to China.
An electrical short circuit linked to a power overload is suspected of being the cause of the fire. [FULL STORY]