Keelung court orders compensation for man who died on Beishi River outing
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A Keelung court has awarded NT$2.65 million (US$82,113) in state compensation to the family of a man who died after being swept into New Taipei's Beishi River following heavy rains.
Taipei, Nov. 17 (CNA) A woman who organized an outing to the Hubaotan area in New Taipei has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence, with five years probation, for the deaths of six members of the group in a flooded river last year, according to a court statement released Thursday.
A tour guide has been charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of six people who were swept into New Taipei City’s Beishi River (北勢溪) during a nature camp outing she led in October last year, prosecutors said on Thursday. The woman, surnamed Su (蘇), was the leader of the outing organized by a Taipei-based outdoor experience company on Oct. 16, a statement issued by the Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office said. Twenty-eight people participated in the outing, which mainly involved hiking the Hubaotan Historic Trail in New Taipei City’s Shuangsi District (雙溪), including 14...
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