HAZARD: The building’s owner had been fined 24 times in two years, and the Environmental Protection Bureau had removed 1,120kg of garbage and recyclables from it/ Staff writer, with CNA
A fire in a Taichung apartment building on Sunday that left six people dead and six injured was complicated by clutter in stairwells that made firefighters’ jobs harder and could have boxed in those fleeing, the city’s fire bureau said yesterday.
The Taichung City Fire Bureau said it dispatched 85 people and 22 fire trucks and ambulances after receiving an emergency call at 4:29pm reporting a fire in a seven-story building in the city’s Central District (中區).
After bringing the blaze under control at 6:30pm, firefighters entered the building and found the bodies of six people on the third, fifth and seventh
New vehicle sales in Taiwan last month dipped 11.7 percent year-on-year to 24,278 units, but still beat market expectations, as falling COVID-19 infections offset the effects of a global chip crunch and port congestion, Motor Vehicles Office data showed.
The figure represented a 40.2 percent decline from January due to seasonal factors and fewer working days.
Hotai Motor Co (和泰汽車), which distributes Toyota and Lexus vehicles in Taiwan, had expected new vehicle sales in Taiwan to reach 21,000 units last month.
“The improvement of COVID-19 infections in Taiwan helped lift vehicle sales in February, indicating that domestic demand remains robust,” Hotai spokesman Simon
Judicial authorities yesterday detained a woman surnamed Chiang (江) and her boyfriend, surnamed Chang (張), for allegedly killing Chiang’s father.
The father, a 57-year-old security guard at an elementary school in Taichung, provided financial support for Chiang, who recently returned from the US after studying there for seven years, including a stay at a language school, police said.
Chiang was at odds with her family, as she could not obtain a diploma from a community university, as she had been unable to complete tuition payments, police said.
Chiang had been staying at a rented property with Chang after returning to Taiwan earlier this
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