Taiwan train derailment inside tunnel kills at least 36, leaves scores trapped in wreckage

At least 36 people have been killed and some 70 remain trapped in wreckage after a train in Taiwan derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck that slid off a road leading to a nearby construction site.

The crash, which also injured more than 40 passengers, is the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades.

The train, an express travelling from Taipei to Taitung carrying many tourists and people heading home at the start of a long weekend, came off the rails north of Hualien in eastern Taiwan, the fire department…