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SEF Pledges to Assist Crash Victims' Mainland Kin

The Straits Exchanges Foundation (SEF) of Taiwan has sent letters to the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) on the mainland saying that the SEF is prepared to assist family members of mainland victims of Saturday's air crash to go to Taiwan, the SEF announced Sunday in Taipei.


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83 Bodies Recovered in Taiwan Air Crash
The Straits Exchanges Foundation (SEF) of Taiwan has sent letters to the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) on the mainland saying that the SEF is prepared to assist family members of mainland victims of Saturday's air crash to go to Taiwan, the SEF announced Sunday in Taipei.

"If they plan to come to Taiwan, the Straits Exchanges Foundation will immediately arrange their trips," the SEF said in two letters sent to ARATS Sunday. The SEF also reported in the letters the latest developments concerning the search and rescue operations connected with the air crash.

Replying to a letter of condolence from ARATS concerning the crash, the SEF wrote back Saturday, reporting that there were nine mainland passengers aboard the ill-fated Boeing 747-200 plane, and pledged to "provide full support within its capacity" to the family members of the mainland victims if they plan to go to Taiwan.

With 206 passengers and 19 crew members on board, the passenger jet belonging to the Taiwan-based China Airlines crashed into the sea off the Penghu Islands en route from Taipei to Hong Kong Saturday afternoon.

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Family Members of Mainland Victims of Air Crash to Go to Taiwan
The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) notified China Airlines of Taiwan Sunday that 35 family members of mainland victims of the plane crash Saturday will go to Taiwan as soon as possible.

Among the 225 victims, nine were from China's mainland. The passenger jet, owned by China Airlines, crashed into the Taiwan Straits off the Penghu Islands Saturday.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of China's State Council and ARATS have been working overnight to find and notify the victims' family members.

The ARATS has asked China Airlines to make proper arrangements for the victims' relatives going to Taiwan and handling related issues.



Taiwan Air Crash
  • Accident:A China Airlines passenger jetliner with 206 passengers and 19 crew en route from Taipei to Hong Kong crashed into the Taiwan Straits off the island county of Penghu Saturday afternoon.

  • Rescue work: Taiwanese transportation authorities said that search vessels had found more than 100 bodies in the sea around 25 nautical miles north of Penghu where aChina Airlines jetliner crashed Saturday.

  • Condolences & external assistance: Soon after the crash, the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) sent a letter of condolences Saturday to the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) in Taiwan. China's Communications Ministry Sunday afternoon sent two powerful tugboats to help the rescue work in the vicinity of the crash site.




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