The Yilan District Court has sentenced four people in connection with a fatal 2019 bridge collapse in Taiwan's northeastern county.
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00:00 Four people have been sentenced to prison over a fatal bridge collapse in eastern Taiwan.
00:06 The Nanfang-Ao Bridge collapsed in October 2019, killing six fishers.
00:12 The Yilan District Court has determined the construction of the bridge in the 1990s did
00:17 not follow approved plans and was poorly supervised.
00:21 The sentences go up to two years.
00:24 One of the accused plans to appeal their sentence, saying local officials failed to maintain
00:29 the bridge properly.
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