{"id":2425,"date":"2010-01-29T18:14:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:14:20","slug":"chinese-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/chinese-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourist in critical situation after being hit by rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Chinese tourist who was hit in the head by a falling rock in Taroko National Park is in critical condition at Hualien City-based Tzu-Chi Buddhist General Hospital, hospital personnel said Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Taroko-National-Park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2426\" title=\"Chinese tourist in critical situation after being hit by rock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Taroko-National-Park-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese tourist in critical situation after being hit by rock\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>The tourist, identified only by the family name Wang, was rushed to the hospital earlier in the day after sightseeing in the park in the eastern Taiwan county of Hualien.<\/p>\n<p>Wang had no vital signs on the way to the hospital but was later revived and had a weak pulse, according to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Wang sustained a 10-centimeter gash to the head and severe internal injuries but could not be operated on because her brain stem was injured, the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p>As of 7 p.m., Wang was still in intensive care and in critical condition, the hospital added.<\/p>\n<p>After having being informed of the accident, Hualien County Magistrate Fu Kun-chi visited Wang at the hospital, where he said he had ordered an investigation into what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Taroko National Park Headquarters Deputy Director Chang Teng-wen suggested that recent rain and earthquakes may have loosened some of the rocks on the park&#8217;s cliffs.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary probe found that Wang was hit by a rock that broke away from the mountain because of natural forces rather than being pushed by monkeys as some people at the scene had said, he noted.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese tourist who was hit in the head by a falling rock in Taroko National Park is in critical condition at Hualien City-based Tzu-Chi Buddhist General Hospital, hospital personnel said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}