{"id":30486,"date":"2021-04-02T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T05:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/taiwan-train-crash-many-injured-at-start-of-holiday-weekend"},"modified":"2021-04-03T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:35:16","slug":"taiwan-train-crash-dozens-dead-after-express-service-derails-in-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30486","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan train crash: dozens dead after express service derails in tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 50 people die as train crashes near Hualien City at the start of holiday weekend<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have been killed in a train derailment on the east coast of Taiwan, the island\u2019s worst rail disaster in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The 408 Taroko Express was travelling south on the first day of a long weekend, carrying hundreds of passengers towards Taitung, when it crashed inside a tunnel just outside Hualien City at about 9.30am local time, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/taiwan-train-crash-many-injured-at-start-of-holiday-weekend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 50 people die as train crashes near Hualien City at the start of holiday weekendDozens of people have been killed in a train derailment on the east coast of Taiwan, the island\u2019s worst rail disaster in decades.The 408 Taroko Express was travell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-train-crashes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30512,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions\/30512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}