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#BREAKING Train derails in Taiwan, four feared dead: rescue centre

#UPDATE A packed train has derailed in a tunnel in Taiwan at the start of a long holiday weekend with authorities saying at least four passengers appear to be dead and dozens of others injured.

President Tsai has ordered hospitals to prepare for a mass casualty event

#BREAKING 36 suspected dead in Taiwan train derailment: railway police

#UPDATE Dozens feared dead in Taiwan railway crash.

Dozens of people are feared dead after a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in Taiwan at the start of a long holiday weekend, with rescuers still scrambling to reach others trapped inside

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Taiwan train accident.

#AFPgraphics map showing the location of a deadly train derailment in eastern Taiwan today

#BREAKING Toll update: 41 dead in Taiwan train crash, says fire agency

VIDEO: Rescuers on scene at deadly Taiwan train derailment.

Taiwan rescuers are scrambling to reach passengers trapped inside a train derailed inside a tunnel, as dozens of people are feared dead in the crash

#UPDATE Taiwanese officials said the accident could have been caused by a maintenance vehicle sliding down an embankment and striking the train before it entered the tunnel near the coastal city of Hualien

#UPDATE At least 50 people were killed in Taiwan on Friday when a packed train collided with a vehicle on the tracks and then derailed inside a tunnel, in the island's worst railway accident in decades
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