{"id":30500,"date":"2021-04-02T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/apr\/02\/dozens-killed-after-train-carrying-350-people-derails-in-eastern-taiwan-video"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:19:10","slug":"dozens-killed-after-train-carrying-about-350-people-derails-in-eastern-taiwan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30500","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed after train carrying about 350 people derails in eastern Taiwan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people have died after a train derailed in a tunnel in eastern&nbsp;Taiwan, authorities have said.&nbsp; The 408 Taroko Express was carrying about 350 people when it crashed on Friday morning at Qingshui tunnel in Huaelien county, the transport ministry said. It said 36 passengers &#8216;had no signs of life&#8217;, and 44 others had been taken to hospital with injuries. The majority of injuries occurred in the last two carriages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The express train was travelling south towards Taitung on the first day of a long weekend for the traditional Tomb Sweeping holiday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/taiwan-train-crash-many-injured-at-start-of-holiday-weekend\">Taiwan train crash: dozens dead after express service derails in tunnel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/apr\/02\/dozens-killed-after-train-carrying-350-people-derails-in-eastern-taiwan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people have died after a train derailed in a tunnel in eastern&nbsp;Taiwan, authorities have said.&nbsp; The 408 Taroko Express was carrying about 350 people when it crashed on Friday morning at Qingshui tunnel in Huaelien county, the transpo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500\/revisions\/30523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}