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Taiwan mourns after deadliest train disaster in decades leaves at least 50 dead

by Sean Chang, with Amber Wang in Taipei 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 plunged into mourning. Officials said Friday’s devastating collision was caused when a parked railway maintenance vehicle slipped down an embankment […]