TAROKO EXPRESS CRASH: Rescuer describes scene of train crash as ‘living hell’
Staff writer, with CNA
A Red Cross Society rescuer on Friday recalled the scene of a train crash in Hualien County, saying he could not believe what he saw: scattered body parts and the sounds of people crying in a crumpled train carriage.
“It was a living hell,” said Lin Chi-feng (林啟豐), who led an 11-member rescue team that was among the first to arrive at the scene at 11:03am on Friday, carrying rescue and demolition gear.
The fatal incident occurred at 9:28am when Taroko Express No. 408 crashed inside the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) after slamming into a crane truck near the tunnel’s entrance.
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Ford aims to become carbon neutral by 2050 by committing to electricity
By Pritesh Ruthun
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JOHANNESBURG - On the road to building a better world for future generations, Ford has announced significant greenhouse gas emission targets in its 2021 Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report summary, as the company aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Ford has used the approach of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to set interim emissions targets that are in line with what the latest climate scientists deem necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The 2035 targets consist of reducing absolute greenhouse gas emissions from company global operations by 76% and from new vehicles sold globally by 50% per kilometre.
Food aid provided for the vulnerable queuing outside Sassa office
By Shakirah Thebus
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Cape Town - Aid has been given to needy elderly and disabled people sleeping outside the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) Bellville offices, hoping to get seen to in the morning.
Stay-overs continue outside the offices after thousands of temporary disability and child care dependency grants lapsed on January 1.
The SA Red Cross Society regional health and care manager, Marianna Nomdoe, said they and community-based organisations dispatched volunteers as of Monday night to feed those waiting at Sassa Bellville.
“We were informed late on Sunday that many of the people sleeping outside the offices were elderly and disabled. We’re a humanitarian relief organisation and as such it is our mandate to alleviate suffering. This being said, we immediately, with Western Cape Community Care and others, put a plan in motion to feed the vulnerable while they waited to be assisted by Sassa.”
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Commissioner Chris Nissen says Sassa should use community halls as temporary distribution centres.
People have been sleeping in queues outside Sassa offices in a bid to secure temporary disability grants.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has urged the South African Social Services Agency (Sassa) to get the City of Cape Town to release community halls for use as satellite offices.
Commissioner Chris Nissen said on Tuesday that, although Sassa was under-resourced, it needed to do more to resolve the crisis. People have been queuing outside the agency s offices to secure their spots in the queue.
The commission called on Sassa and the metro to work together to reopen community halls as service points, so that people would not have to sleep outside offices to apply for social grants.