Taipei, Dec. 3 (CNA) Prosecutors on Friday indicted the owner and two staff members of a quarantine hotel in Changhua City, central Taiwan for negligent homicide in the June 30 fire that resulted in the deaths of three hotel guests and a firefighter.
‘If we don’t go, will we die?’: quarantine guests perish in hotel fire
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By Amy Chang Chien
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When the fire alarm went off at a hotel in central Taiwan on Wednesday evening, Chen Chien-kuang, 59, a missionary, immediately thought of escaping. But he was one of 29 people in coronavirus quarantine inside the hotel and worried about breaking the rules, which required those in quarantine to stay inside their rooms.
“I don’t know whether I can go out or not. I’m afraid that we will be fined if we go out,” Chen said in a video he took and sent to his son, which was released by the local news media and confirmed by his wife’s brother, Chen Yi-sa. “But if we don’t go, will we die in the fire.”
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