Truck owner Lee Yi-hsiang offers a public apology before he is led away by police in Hualien, Taiwan. Screenshot / EBC via APTruck owner Lee Yi-hsiang offers a public apology before he is led away by police in Hualien, Taiwan. Screenshot / EBC via APThe owner of a construction truck that caused Taiwan's worst rail accident in decades, killing 48 people, apologised in tears while being led away from his home by police today. The truck was hit by a passenger train carrying 494 people, which derailed just before entering a tunnel, crushing many passengers inside the mangled train carriages. A distressed woman is carried away from the accident scene near Taroko Gorge in Hualien, Taiwan.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 04, 2021 22:07 UTC