President exhorts relief efforts after fatal train crash

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Friday instructed all relevant government agencies to coordinate on relief work after at least 48 passengers died and over 100 were injured when a train carrying over 350 people crashed in Hualien, eastern Taiwan earlier that day, leaving several carriages piled up in a tunnel.

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