Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said Thursday that the government will continue to increase the number of train drivers, mechanical engineers, maintenance and other professionals in Taiwan's railway transportation system as the longstanding problem of insufficient manpower was again exposed in the recent deadly derailment accident that killed 18 people and injured 210 others.
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