TAIPEI (TVBS News) — Railway police announced on Friday (Sept. 1) that more victims' remains were found on the damaged railcars of the Taroko Express that crashed two years ago.
A day earlier, the spokesperson for a victims' families group, "Tears of Taroko," Wang Wei-chun, found a piece of a skull in the size of a palm on a cart during a visit with Japanese railway safety experts at the Fugang Depot in Taoyuan City where the crashed railcars were stored.
Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) Director-General Tu Wei ordered railway police investigators to inspect the carts on Friday morning, and they found more pieces of suspected human remains.
The search also found clothes, electronic devices, and personal belongings of the victims.
The Minister of Transportation and Communications, Wang Kwo-tsai, said Friday that the TRA would do its utmost to assist in the identification process to return the remains to the family as soon as possible.
The TRA responded Thursday that after the fatal accident in Hualien, police, prosecutors, and officials from the Transportation Safety Board have conducted blanket searches of the carts several times.
The board then delivered the two most damaged carts on March 15, 2022, after finishing the investigation to the TRA for preservation in its original condition at the Fugang Depot.
The fatal 2021 Taroko Express train accident in Hualien took 49 lives and left more than 200 injured.