Forty-nine people died when train hit a railway maintenance vehicle that slid down an embankment

Prosecutors in Taiwan have charged a truck driver with negligent homicide over his role in the island’s worst rail disaster in decades, which left 49 dead and more than 200 injured.

The crash on 2 April was caused by a railway maintenance truck that slid down an embankment moments before a packed train came down the line in the eastern coastal city of Hualien.

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