Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-23
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The relatives of the mostly Chinese victims of this week’s bus blaze on 
Saturday visited the site of the accident where 26 people died.
On July 19, a tour bus on its way to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport caught fire and smashed into the railing of the No.2 Freeway, with all people on board unable to escape. The dead were 23 tourists from northeastern China’s Liaoning Province and a Chinese tour guide who were arriving at the end of an eight-day tour, as well as a Taiwanese guide and the Taiwanese driver.
On Saturday afternoon, the relatives of the victims who had flown over from China were allowed to pay their respects in a traditional ceremony at the site of the accident on the freeway between 2 and 4 p.m. [FULL STORY]
