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By Wang chun-chi, Hua Meng-ching and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerPresident Tsai Ing-wen （蔡英文） and other officials yesterday visited people injured in the Taroko Express No. 408 train crash, as well as the families of those who died in the accident.
TAROKO EXPRESS CRASH: Tsai visits victims of crash, vows to give them support
By Wang chun-chi, Hua Meng-ching and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and other officials yesterday visited people injured in the Taroko Express No. 408 train crash, as well as the families of those who died in the accident.
The government is to provide support for the victims and their families, they said.
Tsai, joined by Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) and Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), also visited a funeral home in Hualien City, where services were being held for the deceased.
Among the flowers
A train passes over a field of sunflowers as it crosses the Kecheng Iron Bridge in Hualien County’s Yuli Township yesterday. The scenic spot is expected to draw even more photographers than usual over the Lunar New Year holiday period, as fewer vacationers leave Taiwan due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as is a rice straw arts festival in neighboring Fuli Township, which runs until Feb. 20.
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Art of straw
People walk among sculptures at the Rice Straw Art Festival in Hualien County’s Fuli Township yesterday, the first day of the annual event. Twenty installations are on display, including giant sculptures of gorillas and hippos, cows, monkeys, penguins and swans, said the Fuli Township Farmers’ Association, which organizes the event. The festival runs through the end of April in Luoshan Village.
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