The manager of a construction site whose truck slid onto rail tracks causing a catastrophic train crash in Taiwan apologized in tears while being led away from his home by police on Sunday. The unmanned truck’s emergency brake was not properly engaged, according to the government’s disaster relief center. The transport minister has offered to resign, but his offer was rejected for now. In the island’s worst rail accident in seven decades, 48 people have been confirmed dead after a packed express train carrying almost 500 passengers and crew slammed into a truck near the eastern city of Hualien on Friday, causing it to derail and the front part to crumple. The death toll was revised down to 48 on Sunday, after rescuers initially said 51, then 50 people were killed. The changes came after some body parts were found to belong to one individual, a spokesperson for the Central Emergency …
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