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KMT calls on Tsai to apologize, Su to resign over deadly train crash
04/05/2021 05:27 PM
The KMT press conference. CNA photo April 5, 2021
Taipei, April 5 (CNA) Taiwan s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) on Monday called on President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to apologize to the public and for Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) to step down, to take responsibility for a deadly train crash last Friday in which at least 50 people died and 202 were injured.
At a press conference, KMT secretary-general Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) said negligence on the part of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is to blame for the latest express train accident as the DPP government learned nothing from the last train incident involving state-owned Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) in 2018.
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April 05, 2021
The train was carrying almost 500 people.
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A Taiwanese construction site manager whose truck rolled down a hill and collided with a train appeared in court on Saturday (April 3), local media reported.
The accident on Friday killed 51 passengers and crew and injured nearly 180, making it the island’s worst rail disaster in 7 decades. The dead included 2 engineers and a French national.
The first 2 carriages of the train, which was travelling from New Taipei City to Taitung, derailed after striking the truck as it entered a tunnel near Hualien.
The Taipei Times reported that the construction site boss was not in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
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