By Reuters Staff
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - The truck which collided with a Taiwanese express train last week killing 50 people slid onto the tracks only around one minute before the accident happened, the government said on Tuesday, as it released dramatic footage of the impact.
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The packed train carrying almost 500 passengers and crew slammed into a truck near the eastern city of Hualien on Friday, causing it to derail and the front and middle parts to crumple. It was the island’s worst rail accident in seven decades.
The truck had slid down a sloping road from a building site onto the tracks just outside a tunnel. Officials suspect the truck’s brakes were not properly applied and are investigating the manager of the site.
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April 2 (Reuters) - At least 36 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades.
Following is a list of train accidents around the world with the most fatalities over the past decade:
Oct. 31, 2019 - Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. At least 64 people killed, 30 injured due to a fire on a passenger train
Sept. 5, 2019 - Tanganyika Province, Congo. More than 50 people killed when a passenger train derails
Oct. 19, 2018 - Amritsar, India. More than 50 people killed and more than 200 injured when a train runs into a crowd celebrating a festival
By Reuters Staff
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(Reuters) - At least 36 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades.
Rescue workers walk next to a damaged train which derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan April 2, 2021, in this still image taken from video. FTV via REUTERS
Following is a list of train accidents around the world with the most fatalities over the past decade:
Oct. 31, 2019 - Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. At least 64 people killed, 30 injured due to a fire on a passenger train
A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 in the island's worst rail disaster in almost four decades.
By Reuters Staff
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(Reuters) - An express train in Taiwan derailed on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers in one of island’s worst railway accidents.
Members of the Tzu Chi Foundation take part in a prayer as rescuers transfer bodies at Xincheng railway station after a train derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Annabelle Chih
Following is a list of Taiwan’s deadliest train crashes:
Oct 21, 2018 - A train speeding through a curve derailed, resulting in the death of 18 passengers and 215 injuries.
Nov 15, 1991 - A collision between two trains resulted in 30 deaths and 112 injuries.