Taiwanese train catastrophe with dozens of victims became a record in history. Reports about it Reuters with reference to the Mintrans of Taiwan.
Over 50 people died, another 146 were injured. Among the dead there is one citizen of France. RIA Novosti notes that there are no Russians among the victims.
The train contained 496 people, although it is designed for 350 passengers.
It is noted that the catastrophe in Hoalyan’s county has become the largest number of victims in the history of Taiwan and even for all of China. The last such incident in Taiwan occurred in 2018: then all eight cars of the passenger train came out from the rails. Then 18 people died, about 200 were injured. In China, such a large emergency occurred in 2011, when two compositions were collided by the overpass in Wenzhou. As a result, 40 people were killed, and were injured – 142.
PE happened at 09:28 (04:28 Moscow time) in Tunnel Daqinsui. There were eight cars in the train, two of them are the second and the third – they came up with rails. Subsequent cars were deformed from the strike of the tunnel wall. According to preliminary data, the train collided with a cargo engineering machine, not set on the handbrake and gathered from the slope.