{"id":30530,"date":"2021-04-03T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T00:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/taiwan-train-crash-prosecutors-seek-arrest-warrant-over-disaster"},"modified":"2021-04-03T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T09:16:50","slug":"taiwan-train-crash-prosecutors-seek-arrest-warrant-over-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30530","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan train crash: construction site manager released on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police suspect rail accident that killed at least 50 was caused by \u2018improperly parked\u2019 truck<\/p>\n<p>A Taiwan court has released on bail the manager of a construction site whose truck is believed by authorities to have caused a train accident that killed at least 50 people. Prosecutors have said they will appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Taroko Express was carrying almost 500 people down the island\u2019s east coast on Friday, the first day of a religious festival when families gather to honour their ancestors, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/taiwan-train-crash-many-injured-at-start-of-holiday-weekend\">it crashed in a tunnel just outside Hualien city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/taiwan-train-crash-prosecutors-seek-arrest-warrant-over-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police suspect rail accident that killed at least 50 was caused by \u2018improperly parked\u2019 truckA Taiwan court has released on bail the manager of a construction site whose truck is believed by authorities to have caused a train accident that killed at lea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"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":[41,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530","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\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530\/revisions\/30553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}