Taiwan train crash kills 18 in deadliest rail tragedy in decades


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  • Sunday, 21 Oct 2018

Rescuers search an overturned train in Yilan, Taiwan October 21, 2018. REUTERS/Lee Kun Han

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Eighteen people died and 175 were injured when a train derailed in northeastern Taiwan on Sunday, authorities said, in the island's worst rail disaster in more than three decades.

Four carriages overturned in the crash, which occurred in Yilan County near the coast on a line popular among tourists when all eight cars ran off the tracks on a bend near a station, officials said.

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