Prosecutors in Taiwan are demanding the arrest of a building site boss whose lorry is accused of being the cause of a train accident that killed at least 50 people.
When the train slid onto the tracks from the site, it collided with the lorry, trapping hundreds of passengers in the rubble for hours.
The train from Taiwan's capital Taipei to Taitung was crowded with people celebrating Taiwan's Tomb Sweeping holiday.[Mady Entertainment World]
The collision on Friday was the island's worst train tragedy in decades.
The train was going through a tunnel just north of Hualien when it happened. Within the tube, rescuers combed heavily burned carriages for survivors, some of whom broke windows to escape.
Many of the nearly 500 passengers on board may have been standing because the train was so full.
Salvage teams began transferring the rear carriages, which were largely undamaged outside the tunnel, on Saturday. The carriages that have been severely affected are now inside the tube.
The 408 train is one of the fastest on a network that is commonly regarded as stable. It has a top speed of 130 km/h (80mph).[Mady Entertainment World]
On Saturday, President Tsai Ing-wen paid a visit to a hospital in Hualien "to visit our injured and show my condolences to the victims' families," she said.
"I'd like to express my condolences to the victims' families," she said. "We will do everything we can to assist with the funeral arrangements."At the moment, hospitals are doing their utmost to save the injured and to provide the best treatment possible.
'An sudden violent jolt'
On Friday, at 9:00 a.m. local time (01:00 a.m. GMT), a plane crashed.
Any passengers in the back of the train remained unharmed, while 100 people were evacuated from the first four carriages. Most of the missing, wounded, and trapped were discovered inside the tunnel in four crumpled carriages.
One female survivor told Taiwan's UDN, "It felt like there was a sudden violent jolt and I found myself crashing to the floor." "To get out, we broke the glass and climbed to the train's roof."
Another woman who had been saved said: "My whole body was thrown to the ground. When I hit my head, it began to bleed."[Mady Entertainment World]
A 50-year-old survivor told Apple Daily that she saw several people stuck beneath their seats and that there were bodies everywhere as she left her carriage.
According to news in the local media, the train driver is among the killed.
A big yellow flatbed truck can be seen parked along the tracks. A development scheme is ongoing at the tunnel's northern end.
The vehicle's descent down the embankment is unknown.
Many that have survived are being carried on stretchers.
People were seen walking along the tracks with their possessions when they were rescued from carriages that had been less severely damaged.
Other survivors were carried out on stretchers with braces around their heads.
Many of those on board were thought to be on their way to participate in the Tomb Sweeping festival, which involves paying homage to the deceased by visiting family members' graves, sprucing them up, and making offerings to their spirits.
The number of people killed in the train accident is the largest in Taiwan in 73 years. A commuter carried flammable material into a train in Taipei's Xindian district in 1948, sparking a fire that destroyed four carriages and killed 64 people.