(MENAFN) Over 18 people have died as 187 more were wounded after a passenger train went out tracks in north-east Taiwan.
Railway authorities declared that probes have been launched into the case which took place in Yilan County at around 16:50 local time (08:50 GMT) on Sunday.
The train carried up to 366 passengers when all of its eight carriages went off tracks.
The case is considered the worst rail-related tragedy in Taiwan's in 27 years.
Passenger Henry Tseng confirmed: "The train was going very fast. I hit a wall when the car started to flip. Around five to six people were thrown out of the carriage door."
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