TAIPEI – Taiwanese rescuers on Monday were trying to retrieve the last body of a passenger from wreckage of a deadly train crash last week.
Fifty people were confirmed dead after a packed express train carrying almost 500 passengers and crew slammed into a truck near the eastern city of Hualien on Friday.
The truck slid down a sloping road from a building site onto the tracks just outside a tunnel.
Hualien’s fire department said the remaining body was trapped under a 15-tonne train bogie.
“The rescue is difficult, and we are currently discussing how to overcome these difficulties, so the time it takes may be delayed,” the department said.
The government said the fifth carriage had been removed, with the other three expected to be extracted today.(Reuters)
