Taipei Times
Date: 2016/07/25
By: Bien Chin-feng, Wang Hung-kuo, Sunrise Huang, Lu Kang-chun and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, July 25 (CNA) A number of Taiwanese and Chinese officials attended a public funeral 
service Monday afternoon for the 24 Chinese tourists and two Taiwanese who were killed in a bus fire on a Taiwan freeway last week.
Prior to the scheduled public funeral service, a religious ceremony was held in the morning for some of the victims. A planned Christian memorial service was canceled.
Also on Monday, the bodies of four Chinese victims were cremated, while another four were due to be cremated later in the day, as arranged by the families that rushed to Taiwan after the incident on July 19.
Several Chinese officials are also in Taiwan to help deal with the aftermath of the bus fire that has given rise to safety concerns on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. [FULL STORY]
