Taiwan: Dozens killed as train crashes and derails in tunnel

[John Ashworth]

Taiwan: Dozens killed as train crashes and derails in tunnel

At least 41 people have died and up to 200 remain trapped after a train carrying nearly 500 people crashed and then derailed in a tunnel in Taiwan. Dozens more have been injured, with rescuers trying to access several badly damaged carriages. The eight-carriage train reportedly hit a construction vehicle that had slipped onto the tracks at the tunnel's mouth...

The latest reports from the National Fire Agency say 490 people were on the train, with 41 dead and more than 60 injured. Some people at the back of the train were able to walk away unscathed, but 100 were rescued from the first four carriages and about 200 more remain trapped...

[John Ashworth]

Taiwan train crash: prosecutors seek arrest warrant over disaster

Taiwan authorities have sought an arrest warrant for the driver of a construction vehicle that is alleged to be the cause of train derailment which killed at least 50 people...Police believe the train hit a truck which had slid down an embankment from a maintenance work site on to the tracks...

Taiwan: Prosecutors seek arrest after train crash which killed 50

Prosecutors in Taiwan want to arrest a construction site manager whose lorry is suspected of causing a train crash in which at least 50 people died. The train hit the lorry when it slid onto the tracks from the site, trapping hundreds in the wreckage for hours...

[John Ashworth]

Taiwan train crash: truck driver expresses 'deep remorse' over disaster

A maintenance worker whose runaway truck sparked Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in recent decades made a tearful apology on Sunday as investigators said the train driver had little time to react to the collision... Investigators say the Taroko Express hit a truck on the line moments before it entered the tunnel. The vehicle slipped down a steep embankment and prosecutors are working to determine whether the driver either failed to secure the parking brake or if it had a mechanical failure...

Taiwan train crash: Lorry boss offers 'deep remorse'

A construction site manager whose lorry slid on to a railway track and led to Taiwan's worst train disaster in decades has expressed "deep regret"...

[John Ashworth]

Taiwan train crash: new footage released as experts piece together last moments

The runaway truck that caused Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in decades slid onto the train tracks just over a minute before an express train came through at more than 120km/h, investigators have said, as newly released footage revealed the drivers’ attempts to brake...

[John Ashworth]

Taiwan train crash: truck driver charged with negligent homicide

Prosecutors in Taiwan have charged a truck driver with negligent homicide over his role in the island’s worst rail disaster in decades, which left 49 dead and more than 200 injured...