Taiwan Train Collide with Truck···1 Dead

Rescuers work at the accident site after a passenger train collided with a truck which carried sandstone and intruded into the rail track in Taoyuan County, southeast China’s Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2012.

The collision occurred on Tuesday morning when the train was coming from central Changhwa County to eastern Hualien County at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour in the island. The locomotive was derailed and the train’s driver died from wounds. More than 20 train passengers were slightly injured. <Photo: Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai>

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