Taiwan

TW driver confirmed dead, mainland tourists still missing

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-10-26 19:57

TAIPEI - A Taiwan driver, Tsai Chih-ming, missing since October 21 after a Typhoon Megi-triggered landslide on the island's eastern coastal Suao-Hualien Highway, was confirmed dead Tuesday, according to the local prosecutors office.

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The rescue team found his remains at a section of the highway Monday, and fingerprint identification confirmed the identity, the office said.

Despite a search lasting more than five days, tour group leader Tian Yuan, from Beijing, who was on the same bus as Tsai, remains missing.

Twenty-one members of a tour group - 19 mainland tourists, a local guide and a local driver - are still missing after their bus was hit by a landslide on the highway on October 21.