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    Senad Short one of 50 killed in the Taiwan Train derailment

    https://ktiv.com/2021/04/08/universi...n-train-crash/

    . IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) ? The University of Iowa says a 2018 graduate was among those killed in a train derailment last week in Taiwan.

    The Hawkeye community is remembering Iowa City native Sen?ad Short. She graduated with a BA with University Honors and With Distinction in international studies and a minor in French.

    ?Our thoughts are with Sen?ad?s family and friends and we offer condolences to all of those who lost loved ones in Friday?s accident,? the University said.

    The passenger train Short was riding on was carrying nearly 500 people. It smashed into a truck on its tracks and partially derailed in Hualien County on April 2. In total, 50 people died and 202 were injured, according to Taiwan?s Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC).

    Short was a 2020 Fulbright award winner. With her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Taiwan, she was teaching English in Taipei and offering dance and art lessons to children in the community.

    ?It is never easy to lose a friend and fellow Hawkeye and we encourage those who may need support to connect with others and seek out resources,? the University wrote.

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    The University said students can schedule an appointment with University Counseling Service at 319-335-7294 or by visiting: https://counseling.uiowa.edu/services/appointments/.

    Faculty and staff members needing support should contact Faculty and Staff Services Employee Assistance Program at 319-335-2085 or eaphelp@uiowa.edu. They can also call CommUnity?s (formerly Johnson County Crisis Center) 24-hour crisis line at 319-351-0140.

    Additional resources can be found on the University?s safety and support website: https://uiowa.edu/student-life/safety-and-support.

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    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/arti...an-train-crash

    . An illegal foreign worker has been detained as a second suspect in
    Taiwan’s worst train derailment in seven decades
    in Hualien county on the east coast that killed 50 people and injured more than 200 others, authorities said on Thursday.
    Chief prosecutor of the case at the Hualien District Prosecutors Office, Chou Fang-yi, told reporters that two men were suspected of causing the April 2 disaster and the court had approved their request to detain the second suspect, who she said was a foreign worker from Vietnam who was in
    Taiwan
    illegally.
    The main suspect, Lee Yi-hsiang, has been detained for further questioning since Sunday. The court has seized Lee’s assets to prevent him from transferring his personal assets and those under his two companies that are subcontractors of the Taiwan Railway Administration.



    As Lee also serves as a construction site manager for the TRA, rail authorities say Lee lied about his identity to circumvent the law that prohibits holding both positions, construction company owner and construction site manager.

    Authorities also found that Lee lied about inspecting the construction site alone. Surveillance camera footage showed that more vehicles and other people were at the site on the day of the accident, even though the TRA had ordered all construction work to be halted during the four-day tomb-sweeping festival.



    Investigators said Lee was not alone, but instead with a man caught on surveillance camera with him in the crane truck loaded with waste tyres. Prosecutors identified the passenger as the illegal worker from Vietnam.

    Lee is the driver of a crane truck that rolled down a slope on April 2 and caused the accident. Railway authorities suspect that the truck was parked without the emergency brake engaged.



    Young told reporters at the legislature on Thursday that more evidence had been secured, including an audio and video recording between Lee and the illegal foreign worker inside the truck. But Young declined to reveal details of their conversation.



    Prosecutors seek to determine whether Lee and the illegal foreign worker tried to use another on-site crane truck to free their truck from the roadside bushes.

    Meanwhile, trains in Taiwan marked the seventh day of the accident on Thursday by sounding their horns.

    Trains passing the accident site did so for 30 seconds, and at least 120 trains did so for five seconds at 9.28am, the time of the accident.


    Taiwanese believe that on the seventh day after death, a person’s spirit returns to their family home and religious rituals must be performed to welcome them.

    Among the 50 people who died were a five-year-old girl, two American women in their 20s and a Frenchman who would have turned 28 two days after the accident. The
    train driver, 32, and his 31-year-old assistant
    also lost their lives.

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