Taiwanese Tour Group's Rollover Accident in Gansu Causes Death; Family Brings Ashes Back to Taiwan
A Taiwanese tour group's electric vehicle overturned in Gansu, China, on April 24, resulting in one death and 12 injuries. The family of the deceased returned to Taiwan today with the victim's ashes, receiving humanitarian customs assistance from relevant agencies.
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(Taoyuan Airport, CNA reporter Wu Ruizhi, April 28) A Taiwanese tour group's rollover accident in Gansu, China, on April 24 caused 1 death and 12 injuries. Today, the family brought the deceased's ashes back to Taiwan, with the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), Tourism Administration, and Immigration Agency Border Affairs Brigade all sending personnel to provide humanitarian customs assistance.
Pan Wei-sung, head of the Longteng Police Station of the Miaoli County Police Bureau's Miaoli Precinct, and relatives were traveling in China when an electric vehicle they were riding in overturned in a scenic area in Gansu, China, on April 24. Pan Wei-sung and his wife were injured, and his brother-in-law died from serious injuries. The accident caused a total of 1 death and 12 injuries.
Today, two injured members of the same group (also family members), and two family members who traveled from Taiwan to handle the aftermath, returned to Taiwan on Air China flight CA417 from Chengdu. The flight arrived at the national gate at 4:54 PM. The deceased's ashes were carried by the family in a backpack, held in their arms as they disembarked. The SEF, ARATS, Ministry of Transportation and Communications Tourism Administration, and Immigration Agency Border Affairs Brigade all sent personnel to the boarding gate to provide assistance.
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation also specially dispatched an airport terminal electric vehicle to the scene, transporting the family from the boarding gate to the African swine fever inspection station. Subsequently, various units accompanied the family on foot through humanitarian customs procedures before they departed. (Editor: Zhang Yanjing) 1150428
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(Taoyuan Airport, CNA reporter Wu Ruizhi, April 28) A Taiwanese tour group's rollover accident in Gansu, China, on April 24 caused 1 death and 12 injuries. Today, the family brought the deceased's ashes back to Taiwan, with the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), Tourism Administration, and Immigration Agency Border Affairs Brigade all sending personnel to provide humanitarian customs assistance.
Pan Wei-sung, head of the Longteng Police Station of the Miaoli County Police Bureau's Miaoli Precinct, and relatives were traveling in China when an electric vehicle they were riding in overturned in a scenic area in Gansu, China, on April 24. Pan Wei-sung and his wife were injured, and his brother-in-law died from serious injuries. The accident caused a total of 1 death and 12 injuries.
Today, two injured members of the same group (also family members), and two family members who traveled from Taiwan to handle the aftermath, returned to Taiwan on Air China flight CA417 from Chengdu. The flight arrived at the national gate at 4:54 PM. The deceased's ashes were carried by the family in a backpack, held in their arms as they disembarked. The SEF, ARATS, Ministry of Transportation and Communications Tourism Administration, and Immigration Agency Border Affairs Brigade all sent personnel to the boarding gate to provide assistance.
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation also specially dispatched an airport terminal electric vehicle to the scene, transporting the family from the boarding gate to the African swine fever inspection station. Subsequently, various units accompanied the family on foot through humanitarian customs procedures before they departed. (Editor: Zhang Yanjing) 1150428
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