This handout picture taken and released on April 2, 2021 by Taiwan Red Cross shows rescue teams at the site where a train derailed inside a tunnel in the mountains of Hualien, eastern Taiwan. - AFP
* Train appears to have hit a truck * Many passengers were starting long weekend holiday * Some carriages ripped apart in tunnel * 'People just fell all over each other' - survivor
TAIPEI, April 2 (Reuters): At least 41 people were killed and more than 60 injured after a Taiwanese train carrying almost 500 passengers derailed in a tunnel on Friday when it apparently hit a truck that slid off a road leading to a nearby construction site.
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