Rescuers transfer a body at Xincheng railway station after a train derailed in a tunnel north of Hualien, Taiwan April 2, 2021. “People just fell all over each other, on top of one another,” a woman who survived the crash told domestic television. There were whole families there.”Taiwan’s government said there were 496 people on the train, including 120 without seats. The last major crash was in 2018, when 18 people died and 175 were injured when a train derailed in the island’s northeast. In 1948, 64 people are estimated to have died when a train burst into flames in northern Taiwan.

Source: Standard Digital April 02, 2021 21:00 UTC