A tourist coach bursts into flames on the highway to the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on July 19, 2016. (Photo/Sina Weibo)
Twenty-six people have died after a fire broke out in a tourist bus along the highway to the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, CCTV reports.
The report said the bus swerved into a hand rail on the highway for "unknown reasons" and then bursted into a fireball at 12:57 am. The fire was put out half an hour later.
Taipei local media said the 24-member tourist group were from Northeast China's Liaoning province, who had arrived in Taiwan on July 12 and planned to return today.
