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CONTROVERSIAL: Sentences of up to nearly nine years are likely to be appealed, as homicide rather than negligence was more apparent, prosecutors and families saidBy Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Taiwan Transportation Safety Board Chairman Young Hong-tsu (楊宏智) yesterday said that he supports the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ plan to corporatize the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA).
Young made the statement at a news conference in Taipei, at which the board published the results of its investigation into the derailment of a train in Hualien County on April 2 last year.
The southbound Taroko Express No. 408 crashed inside the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) in Sioulin Township (秀林) after hitting a crane truck that had slid onto the tracks from a service road, derailing it.
Forty-nine people were killed and 213 were injured.
After a