Taipei: a automotive invested in a gaggle of primarily college students outdoors a college in Taiwan Monday (May 19), killing a minimum of three individuals and injuring 12, mentioned the police.
The accident occurred close to Taipei round 16:00 when a automotive led by a 78 -year -old man managed a crimson gentle and collided with three bikes and a bicycle, earlier than hitting college students and adults.
The movies shared by the police present individuals who make chest compressions on the victims who lie on the road, the emergency workers who take away the wounded and bikes and bicycles on the edges.
Sheets of paper and different particles had been scattered via the intersection.
“For unknown causes, the automobile all of a sudden accelerated,” the police mentioned in a be aware.
Fifteen individuals, together with the driving force, had been introduced to a few hospitals with “varied gravity” accidents, mentioned the police.
Three died within the hospital, together with two 12 -year -old ladies and a 40 -year -old girl.
The driver was unconscious and had examined himself destructive for alcohol, the police mentioned.
Nine of the victims had been college students aged 12 and 15 by Sanxia Junior High School. The youngest, six years previous, got here from a close-by nursery faculty.
President Lai Ching-te was “shocked and saddened”, in line with a declaration issued by the presidential workplace.
Lai visited the victims within the hospital on Monday night. He ordered to determine a job power to assist the victims and their households and to research the reason for the accident.
The mayor of New Taipei City Hou Yu-ih, who additionally went to hospitals, mentioned that some victims had been nonetheless receiving intensive therapy “.
“We will make clear the accountability as quickly as potential and provides the general public a proof,” Hou mentioned.
