Salvage teams begin removing mangled train carriages after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people. Officials said Friday's devastating collision was caused when a parked railway maintenance vehicle slipped down an embankment and onto the tracks. A train packed with as many as 500 people at the start of a long holiday weekend then hit the truck just as it entered a narrow tunnel near the eastern coastal city of Hualien.

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