CHINA / SOCIETY
By Global Times Published: Apr 02, 2021 11:56 AM Updated: Apr 03, 2021 12:33 AM
Photo:VCGAt least 50 people died and more than 140 injured after a passenger train derailed in a tunnel on eastern Taiwan island Friday morning, according to the local railway department. Casualties are likely to climb, as some are seriously injured.
Among the 50 deceased, two are the driver and assistant driver, and the rest are passengers including one French national.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits both on Friday sent condolences to the families of the deceased, and expressed sympathies to the injured in the tragic accident.
By the mid-13th century, Jasło, known then as “Jasiel” or “Jasio
,” was the site of a powerful Cistercian Abbey. On April 23, 1366 AD, the village was granted “ Magdeburg rights ” by King Casimir III the Great, and in 1368 AD the king made a transaction with the Cistercian monks. In exchange for the town of Frysztak, the villages of Glinik and Kobyle, Jasło became royal towns.
According to Dlugosz in
Liber beneficiorum Dioecesis cracoviensis , the Carmelite brothers first came to Jasło in the mid-14th century. The church that we see standing today was built by “brothers Stanislaw Cielatko (Czelanthco), Sandomierz scholastic
At 9.28 a.m. (local time), the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) No. 408 Taroko train en route from Shulin, New Taipei, to Taitung, suddenly derailed as it entered the Daqingshui tunnel, reports Taiwan News. The