Rescue workers work at the site where a train derailed in Yilan county, Taiwan October 21, 2018. Picture taken October 21, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered words of consolation on Monday as she met relatives of 18 people killed and 187 injured when a train derailed in the island's northeast, its worst rail disaster in more than three decades.
Officials said four carriages overturned on Sunday after all eight cars of a train carrying 366 passengers left the tracks on a bend near a railway station in Yilan county, about 40 km (25 miles) from the capital Taipei.
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