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HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -A Taiwan court on Saturday released on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck authorities believe caused a train accident that killed at least 51 people, as family members mourned the dead at the crash site.
The crash on Friday was Taiwan s worst rail accident in seven decades, when an express train hit the truck that had slid down a bank beside the track from the building site. The site s manager is suspected of having failed to properly engage the truck s brake.
The train, with almost 500 people aboard, was travelling from Taipei, the capital, to Taitung on the east coast when it derailed in a tunnel just north of the city of Hualien. Forty one people are in hospital, from among the 188 reported injured.
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Taiwan releases train crash suspect on bond, prosecutors to appeal
Rescuers work at the site a day after a deadly train derailment at a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang reuters tickers
This content was published on April 3, 2021 - 09:59
April 3, 2021 - 09:59
By Ann Wang
HUALIEN, Taiwan (Reuters) -A Taiwan court on Saturday released on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck authorities believe caused a train accident that killed at least 50 people, but prosecutors vowed to appeal, as family members mourned the dead at the crash site.
Friday s crash was Taiwan s worst rail accident in seven decades, when an express train hit the truck that had slid down a bank beside the track from the building site. The site s manager is suspected of having failed to properly engage the brake.