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A Taiwan bus taking elderly local tourists home from visiting seasonal cherry blossoms skidded off a highway yesterday leaving 32 dead, in the island’s worst road accident in decades. It comes after a bus inferno in July last year killed 25 Chinese holidaymakers on board, and is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have tarnished Taiwan’s safety record.
According to reports Taiwanese passengers had been returning from a trip to a farm in the central region of Taichung when the bus veered off the motorway in the capital Taipei. The bus carrying 44 people was left flipped over on the side of the road and around 100 rescuers rushed to the scene.
Police are investigating whether the bus was speeding at the time. The national fire agency said, 32 people had been killed, with 12 still being treated in hospital, most with serious injuries.