Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/30
By: Central News Agency
Taipei, April 30 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen will have the Ministry of the Interior (MOI)
(By Central News Agency)
conduct a review of fire safety rules after a massive blaze in an electronics factory in Taoyuan took the lives of five firemen and two migrant workers Saturday night.
Accompanied by Interior Minister Yeh Jiunn-rong and Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (???), Tsai paid her respects to the victims of the fire and extended condolences to the families at a funeral home in the city.
Tsai later headed to a hospital and visited two other firefighters injured in the fire. Before leaving the hospital, she said the MOI will carry out a review into the accident and make improvements on fire safety rules to make it safer to fight fires.
Cheng said the city’s environmental protection department will ask the printed circuit board factory — Chin Poon Industrial — to suspend operations and fine it for causing air and water pollution in the wake of the fire. [FULL STORY]
