Two Taiwanese Women Killed in British Train Crash

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Two Taiwanese Women Killed in British Train Crash

A Taiwanese woman television reporter and a former colleague were killed in Friday's train crash outside London and another of their friends is brain dead, Taipei officials said.

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A Taiwanese woman television reporter and a former colleague were killed in Friday's train crash outside London and another of their friends is brain dead, Taipei officials said.

"The British police have identified one of the victims as Lin Chia-hsin," Chang Siao-yue, the so-called "foreign ministry" spokeswoman of Taiwan authorities, told reporters Sunday.

Lin, formerly a reporter of Taiwan's China Television Co., recently completed a master's degree in Britain and had been scheduled to return to Taiwan by the end of this month.

Local cable TV network TVBS said the second Taiwanese victim was one of its reporters, Wu Chia-ching, and the critically injured one was Liu Hai-juo, who used to work for TVBS.

"Both Wu and Liu had travelled to Britain to visit Lin," TVBS said.

Chang said British doctors had diagnosed Liu as being brain dead.

A total of seven people were killed and dozens others injured when the train careered into the Potters Bar station north of London on Friday.

A broken track switch has been blamed for causing the latest of a string of fatal accidents on Britain's dilapidated rail system.

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