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Taiwan mourns after deadliest train disaster in decades

On Saturday, focus shifted to removing carriages now blocking one half of the sole train line down Taiwan's remote and mountainous eastern coastline.

Rescuers working at the site of a train that derailed after colliding with a railway maintenance vehicle in the mountains of Hualien, eastern Taiwan on April 2, 2021. (AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

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Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags flew half-mast across an island

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