Prosecutors raid LCY, CGTD offices檢察官突襲李長榮，CGTD辦事處

By Adam Tyrsett Kuo ,The China Post
August 5, 2014, 12:00 am TWN

　In addition to prosecutors, Kaohsiung's Hydraulic Engineering Bureau yesterday also descended into the city's culverts to find out whether or not other pipes were also broken.
　Investigators are slated to saw off a 2- to 3-meter section of the pipe today for closer examination, in order to determine whether or not it had caused the fatal blasts.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- As part of the investigation into the recent gas explosions in Kaohsiung, prosecutors yesterday raided the offices of LCY Chemical Corp. (李長榮化學工業) and China General Terminal & Distribution Corp. (CGTD, 華運倉儲), after they discovered a hole in one of the underground pipes belonging to LCY.

　Prosecutors believe that the explosions may have begun at the intersection between Ersheng Rd. (二聖路) and Kaixuan Rd. (凱旋路). They brought three experts with them into the culvert beneath the intersection and discovered a 4-inch pipe with a hole measuring 7-centimeters long and 4-centimeters wide.

　Investigators said that they have obtained the data on the pipeline's pressure from LCY and CGTD to calculate whether or not a hypothetical explosion caused by the 28-square-centimeter hole would match the magnitude of the explosions that occurred between July 31 and Aug. 1.

　Investigators also said that they will try to determine what created the hole.

　Although LCY is widely suspected to be to blame for the accident, prosecutors said that they have not excluded other companies as possible suspects.

　Although accusations have been made, there has to be solid evidence from a legal standpoint; therefore, before the results of the examination are out, the prosecution will not have any presumptions, investigators said.

　How the hole formed, whether from internal or external pressure, needs to be determined by experts, so that it can be clarified whether the hole was created by the blasts, or if it was created through corrosion or other means, said Kaohsiung Prosecutors' Office prosecutor Hsieh Chao-ching (謝肇晶).

　The explosions were worst at the intersection, and it is suspected that the leak originated in the culvert beneath it, prosecutors said.

　Once the propene began to leak, it may have spread rapidly through the water in the culvert, leading to a widespread series of blasts, investigators added.

檢察官突襲李長榮，CGTD辦事處

亞當Tyrsett國，在中國郵政
2014年8月5日，上午12:00 TWN

台北，台灣 - 隨著調查的近瓦斯爆炸事故，在高雄的一部分，檢察官突擊搜查李長榮化學公司的辦事處（李長榮化學工業）及中國通用碼頭及分銷公司（CGTD，華運倉儲）之後，他們在屬於李長榮的地下管道中的一個發現了一個洞。

　研究者們預計今天鋸斷管的2到3米部分，用於進一步檢查，以確定它是否已造成了致命的爆炸。

　除了檢察官，高雄水利工程局昨日也陷入了城市的涵洞，找出是否其他管道也被打破。

　檢方認為，爆炸可能已經開始在二聖路之間的交叉點。（二聖路）和凱旋路。（凱旋路）。他們帶來了三位專家與他們進涵洞路口下方，發現了一個4英寸的管道有孔測量7厘米長，4厘米寬。

　研究者說，他們已獲得來自LCY和CGTD管道的壓力數據來計算是否造成的28平方厘米的孔一個假設的爆炸將匹配的7月31日和8月1日之間發生爆炸的嚴重程度。

　調查人員還表示，他們將設法確定什麼創造了洞。

　雖然本幣被廣泛懷疑為罪魁禍首的意外，檢察官說，他們不排除其他公司可能的嫌疑犯。

　雖然指控已作出，必須有從法律的角度來看確鑿的證據; 因此，以前檢查的結果都出來了，檢方將不會有任何的假設，研究者說。

　如何在孔形成時，無論是從內部或外部的壓力，需要由專家來確定，所以它可以被澄清的孔是否是由爆炸產生，或如果它是通過腐蝕或其他方法產生，所述高雄檢察廳檢察官謝超清（謝肇晶）。

　爆炸是最嚴重的路口，並懷疑有洩漏起源於它下面的涵洞，檢察官說。