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President expresses concerns over tour bus blaze accident

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-19
By: Wendy Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

President Tsai Ing-wen was informed of the tour bus fire incident and has expressed concerns over the tragic news, said the Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang Tuesday.

An accident occurred Tuesday around 1 p.m. when a tour bus crashed into an expressway guardrail near Taoyuan International Airport, which led to the deaths of 26 people, most of them tourists from China, according to Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau. A Taiwanese tour guide and the bus driver also died from the tragedy.

The bus was reportedly taking the group of tourists to the airport for a flight home at the end of their 8-day trip to Taiwan, according to media reports.     [FULL  STORY]

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