THREE GORGES TOUR:China’s Hubei Province has been inundated by autumn floods this month, and Yichang, where the rockfall occurred, has been listed as a disaster area
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 16, 2017
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Three Taiwanese were killed yesterday morning and two injured in a rockfall in China’s
Chinese police and officials yesterday inspect the scene of a rockfall in the Three Gorges area in Hubei Province’s Yichang City where three Taiwanese were killed and two others were injured. Photo: CNA, courtesy of the Yichang City Government
Three Gorges area, the Straits Exchange Foundation said.
The five were part of a 45-person tour organized by Trans Continental Travel Service Co (東晟旅行社), a Taipei travel agency, the foundation said in a statement.
The foundation said it had contacted its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and the Mainland Affairs Council after the fatal accident occurred in Yichang, Hubei Province.
It has also formed a “1015 task force” to help and has been trying to coordinate with the Tourism Bureau and authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to provide assistance to the victims and their family members, the foundation said, adding that staff would accompany the relatives of the victims to China. [FULL STORY]
