Railway official gets heaviest penalty in Taroko train crash case

A railway official has been sentenced to nearly nine years in jail for failing to properly supervise a construction project that went awry and led to Taiwan's deadliest train crash in 70 years, the Taiwan Hualien District Court ruled Friday.

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