The Cabinet and other government agencies across the country began flying their flags at half-mast on Tuesday. That’s in mourning for the victims of last week’s Kaohsiung explosions and the plane crash in the offshore island of Penghu a week earlier.
Flags will fly at half-mast for the next three days.
The foreign ministry has asked the embassies of the 22 allied nations of Taiwan to follow suit. The flags of allied countries of visiting dignitaries outside the foreign ministry office are also flying at half-mast.
The gas explosions ripped through Kaohsiung on July 31 just before midnight, killing 28 people and injuring over 300. It followed the crash of a TransAsia Airways flight in Penghu on July 23, which killed 48 of the 58 people on board.