'The world is turned upside down in seconds' in Taiwan's worst rail accident in decades

TAIPEI (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The worst casualties in Taiwan's deadliest rail disaster in more than three decades were in four train cars which overturned, according rescue workers who worked through the night to search for survivors in the ill-fated Puyuma Express No. 6432.

All eight cars of the express train ran off the tracks on a bend near the Xinma Station in Yilan county at 4.50pm on Sunday (Oct 21).