Deadly train derailment in Taiwan kills 48
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02 April 2021, Taiwan, Hualien: Rescue members of the Keelung City Fire Department search for people who are stranded and injured in compartments after a train carrying 490 people derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan. At least 66 were injure Image Source: IANS News
02 April 2021, Taiwan, Hualien: Rescue members of the Keelung City Fire Department search for people who are stranded and injured in compartments after a train carrying 490 people derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan. At least 66 were injure Image Source: IANS News
Taipei, April 2 : Forty-eight people were killed on Friday in a deadly train derailment in Taiwan s Hualien county, authorities said, adding the track on which the fatal accident occurred will take seven days to repair.
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2021/04/02 16:15 Rescue teams at work inside the Daqingshui Tunnel (CNA, New Taipei Fire Service photo) Rescue teams at work inside the Daqingshui Tunnel (CNA, New Taipei Fire Service photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The death toll in the train derailment near a tunnel in Hualien County rose to 50 after the last passengers trapped inside had been rescued, reports said Friday evening (April 2). On the first day of the Tomb Sweeping holiday, a reported 350 passengers were aboard a Taroko Express train that departed from Shulin, New Taipei City, with Taitung as its destination. At 9:28 a.m, as the train was about to enter the Daqingshui tunnel in Xiulin, Hualien County, a construction vehicle parked on a slope above the track rolled down just in time to be hit by the speeding vehicle, according to a preliminary investigation.
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