Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/02
By: Elaine Hou and Lu Hsin-hui
Taipei, July 2 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) expressed her deepest condolences
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) speaks at the airport.
Saturday to the family of a fisherman who was killed after the Navy fired a supersonic anti-ship missile by mistake and hit a Taiwanese fishing boat, saying that such an incident “should not have occurred.”
In a speech at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport upon her return from a nine-day trip to Latin America, she said that Taiwan continued to face many challenges domestically when she was abroad, noting the missile blunder that occurred on Friday.
Expressing her deepest condolences to the family of Huang Wen-chung (黃文忠), she said she agreed with Huang’s wife that “this incident should not have happened.”
She pledged that the government will deal with the fallout of the incident with a responsible attitude. [FULL STORY]