Train crash in Taiwan kills at least 22, injures more than 170
- 5 years ago
대만서 고속열차 탈선…22명 사망•171명 부상
Over in Taiwan, the death toll from a train crash on Sunday rose to at least twenty two, in addition to more than one hundred-seventy people injured.
Authorities say the train, carrying 3-hundred-66 passengers to the Southeast coastal city of Taitung,...went off the tracks while going around a bend near Xinma Station in Taiwan's northeastern Yilan County.
Officials said all passengers, including the dead and injured, had been evacuated or removed from the wreckage by Sunday night.
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has pushed for a swift investigation into what's being called the nation's deadliest rail accident in three decades.
Over in Taiwan, the death toll from a train crash on Sunday rose to at least twenty two, in addition to more than one hundred-seventy people injured.
Authorities say the train, carrying 3-hundred-66 passengers to the Southeast coastal city of Taitung,...went off the tracks while going around a bend near Xinma Station in Taiwan's northeastern Yilan County.
Officials said all passengers, including the dead and injured, had been evacuated or removed from the wreckage by Sunday night.
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has pushed for a swift investigation into what's being called the nation's deadliest rail accident in three decades.