Prosecutors question 7 suspects on blasts檢方懷疑嫌疑人7對爆炸－愛薇塔樂學英文

Prosecutors question 7 suspects on blasts檢方懷疑嫌疑人7對爆炸

By Adam Tyrsett Kuo, The China Post
August 12, 2014, 12:03 am TWN

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors' Office (KDPO) yesterday summoned seven suspects in the high-profile Kaohsiung gas explosions case for questioning.

The KDPO recently assigned an additional 11 investigators to the case, and on Aug. 8, investigators and petrochemical experts headed to facilities belonging to LCY Chemical Corp. (李長榮化工) and China General Terminal & Distribution Corporation (CGTD, 華運) to find out more about the companies' operations on the day of the deadly accident.

Between late July 31 and early Aug. 1, a series of devastating gas explosions ripped apart several streets in the southern port city, resulting in 30 people dead — several of whom were firefighters — and more than 300 injured. Investigators believe that the blasts were caused by a gas leak from a propene-carrying pipe with a 28-square-centimeter hole in it.

In their investigations, prosecutors discovered that the companies may have strayed from protocol when transporting propene through the pipeline in question.

A total of seven individuals — four LCY employees and three from CGTD — were summoned for questioning as suspects. According to local reports, the seven are suspected specifically of committing offenses against public safety.

After questioning, bail was set at NT$2 million for LCY division head Tsai Yung-chien (蔡永堅), NT$1.5 million for LCY engineer Shen Ming-hsiu (沈銘修) and NT$1 million for LCY operator Huang Chin-ming (黃進銘).

Closer Examination of Pipe and Culvert

Upon prosecutors' request, the pipe and the culvert beneath the intersection of Ersheng Rd. (二聖路) and Kaixuan Rd. (凱旋路) were excavated for closer examination, in order to determine whether city officials were involved in graft or if they had made false entries in relevant documents.

The KDPO said that the purpose of excavating the culvert and the pipe is to find out which was built first and whether city officials responsible for the construction had broken the law.

Prosecutors stressed that pipelines are not supposed to be in culverts. It is believed that the pipeline's exposure to air may have caused the rupture and magnified the degree of the blasts by allowing the gas to travel further.

Investigators also requested that a section of the pipeline laid in the soil 2 meters away from the culvert be cut out in order to compare differences in oxidization and corrosion and to see whether LCY had been negligent in the pipeline's maintenance.

檢方懷疑嫌疑人7對爆炸

亞當Tyrsett國，在中國郵政
2014年8月12日，上午12時03分TWN

台北，台灣 - 高雄地檢察署（KDPO）昨日傳喚7名嫌疑人高調高雄瓦斯爆炸案調查。

該KDPO最近指派額外的11調查員的情況下，並在8月8日，調查人員和石化專家前往屬於李長榮化工公司（李長榮化工）和中國通用終端與分銷公司設施（CGTD，華運）到了解更多關於公司的致命事故的日常運作。

7月31日，早8月1日遲間，一系列毀滅性的瓦斯爆炸事故在南部港口城市撕開幾條街道，造成30人死亡 - 其中一些人是消防隊員 - 超過300人受傷。調查人員認為，爆炸是由從丙烯承載管道煤氣洩漏，中間有一個28平方厘米的洞造成的。

在他們的調查，檢察官發現，該公司可能從協議，並通過有關管道輸送丙烯的時候迷路了。

一共有七個人 - 4李長榮員工和三名來自CGTD - 被傳喚問話的犯罪嫌疑人。據當地媒體報導，七個涉嫌專門的觸犯公共危險罪。

訊問結束後，保釋金定為新台幣200萬元的李長榮部門負責人蔡學鏞堅（蔡永堅），新台幣150萬美元李長榮工程師沉明修（沉銘修），並科新台幣一百萬元為李長榮經營者黃哧嗯明（黃進銘）。

管道和涵洞仔細檢查

根據檢察官的要求，管道和二聖路交叉口下方的涵洞。（二聖路）和凱旋路。（凱旋路）出土了仔細的檢查，以確定是否參與移植市政府官員或者他們已經在相關文件作出虛假記載。

該KDPO說，開挖涵洞和管道的目的是要找出它建負責施工已經觸犯法律第一，無論是城市的官員。

檢察官強調，管道不應該在涵洞。據認為，該管道的暴露於空氣中可能造成的斷裂和通過使氣體以進一步行進放大了爆炸的程度。