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Omaha Steve

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Sat Apr 3, 2021, 09:12 AM Apr 2021

Taiwan prosecutors seek arrest in deadly train crash

Source: AP

By RALPH JENNINGS and JOHNSON LAI

HUALIEN COUNTY, Taiwan (AP) — Prosecutors in Taiwan on Saturday sought an arrest warrant for the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a train track and caused the country’s worst rail disaster in decades, killing 50 people and injuring 178.

The train was carrying 494 people at the start of a long holiday weekend on Friday when it smashed into the construction truck, the Taiwan Railways Administration said. The truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center.

The crash occurred just before the train entered a tunnel, and many passengers were crushed inside the mangled train carriages. With much of the train stuck inside the tunnel, some survivors were forced to climb out of windows and walk along the train’s roof to safety.

Authorities initially reported 51 deaths but revised the count down by one on Saturday. Among those killed was a U.S. citizen. Another U.S. citizen who was on the train was reported missing, according to a statement by Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry.



Rescue workers remove a part of the derailed train near Taroko Gorge in Hualien, Taiwan on Saturday, April 3, 2021. The train partially derailed in eastern Taiwan on Friday after colliding with an unmanned vehicle that had rolled down a hill, killing and injuring dozens. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/world-news-taiwan-05d6f99b2405f75ee71bd8a79935d016

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Taiwan train crash: construction site manager released on bail Eugene Apr 2021 #1

Eugene

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1. Taiwan train crash: construction site manager released on bail
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 10:37 AM
Apr 2021
Taiwan train crash: construction site manager released on bail (The Guardian and agencies)

A Taiwan court has released on bail the manager of a construction site whose truck is believed by authorities to have caused a train accident that killed at least 50 people. Prosecutors have said they will appeal the decision.

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But a court in Hualien released the manager, Lee Yi-hsiang, on a bond of 500,000 Taiwan dollars (£12,600), although it restricted him from leaving Taiwan for eight months and said he had to stay in Hualien.

The court said that while the truck’s fall into the path of the train was possibly due to negligence, there was “no possibility of conspiracy”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/03/taiwan-train-crash-prosecutors-seek-arrest-warrant-over-disaster
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