Nantou County fire search and rescue personnel found the car of the Changhua couple surnamed Chen overturned into the valley.

(Provided by Nantou Fire Department)

[Reporter Xie Jieyu/Report from Nantou] It was the cherry blossom viewing season. On the 5th, a 50-year-old man surnamed Chen from Changhua County told his family that he would drive his wife to Lugu Township, Nantou County, to watch the flowers. On the same day, there was no news. Nantou and Changhua police were notified. , together with the Nantou County Fire Department and Shenying and other private rescue groups, searched for 9 days. Today (14th) a vehicle was found falling into a valley in the ginkgo forest area of ​​Dalun Mountain at an altitude of about 1,500 meters. The couple surnamed Chen in the car were dead. for a long time.

According to the investigation, the couple with the surname Chen lived in Hemei Town, Changhua County. After they lost contact when they went out that day, their family members called. Chen’s mobile phone was disconnected, and Chen’s wife’s phone was connected but was not answered. They sent dozens of LINE messages and did not read or reply. , the children felt that something was wrong, and reported to the Hemei Branch Bureau for assistance. The police located the location of the mobile phone through the telecommunications base station, and found that the last location was the base station near a cemetery in Qilintan, Lugu Township, Nantou County.

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The Changhua police quickly contacted the Zhushan sub-bureau of Nantou County. They checked the intersection monitors and found that the couple’s car came to the ginkgo afforestation area of ​​Dalun Mountain at an altitude of about 1,500 meters from Heya, Xiaobantian, and Yangwan Lane in Lugu Township. However, the surveillance footage provided by nearby tea farmers did not show the car going down the mountain.

The search and rescue personnel focused their search on the ginkgo plantation area today, and found that the couple surnamed Chen and their car fell into a valley about 30 meters deep. Overcoming the steep terrain, they moved the body out of the valley and transported it down the mountain.

The police and firefighters judged by the traces of vehicles falling on the side slope of the industrial road. Because the couple surnamed Chen were not familiar with the road conditions, they probably followed the navigation instructions to find the cherry blossom viewing spot. They came to the mountainous area of ​​the ginkgo forest area in Dalun Mountain. They found that the path was wrong and planned to reverse the car. Turned around and accidentally slipped down the valley, but the exact reason still needs to be investigated by the prosecutor and the forensic doctor.

Firefighters from Nantou County found traces of the Chen couple's car falling from the slope on an industrial road leading to the ginkgo afforestation area of ​​Dalun Mountain.

(Provided by Nantou Fire Department)

The couple surnamed Chen were crushed in the car.

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Firefighters from Nantou County transported the bodies of the couple who fell into the valley to the ambulance.

(Provided by Nantou Fire Department)