Taiwan train crash suspect freed on bond, prosecutors lodge appeal

The crash on Friday was Taiwan’s worst rail accident in seven decades, when a train hit the truck that had slid down from the building site. The site manager is suspected of having failed to engage the truck’s brake.

A Taiwan court on Saturday released on bond the manager of a construction site, whose truck authorities believe caused a train accident that killed at least 51 people, as family members mourned the dead at the crash site. The crash on Friday was Taiwan’s worst rail accident in seven decades, when a train hit the truck that had slid down from the building site. The site manager is suspected of having failed to engage the truck’s brake. The train, with almost 500 people aboard, was travelling from Taipei, the capital, to Taitung on the east coast when it derailed in a tunnel just north of the city of Hualien. Forty one people are in hospital, from among the 188 reported injured.