Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images Originally published on April 2, 2021 12:43 pm An express passenger train partially derailed Friday inside a mountain tunnel in eastern Taiwan, killing at least 51 people and injuring dozens in what is being described as the island's worst rail disaster. Photos and video taken after the crash showed a scene of cars torn apart inside the tunnel and passengers crawling out of the wreckage. "People just fell all over each other, on top of one another," a woman who survived the crash told domestic television, according to Reuters. "It was terrifying. There were whole families there." The crash occurred just as the Taroko Express, carrying nearly 500 passengers, was entering a tunnel along a coastal stretch of the line in the island's mountainous east. A construction truck operated by the railway slid down a hillside and onto the track, Taiwan Railways Administration news officer Weng Hui-ping said, causing the train to derail partially inside the mountain tunnel.