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TAIPEI, Taiwan – The Taiwanese authorities were trying to determine what they were doing in the past.
Among the dead were eight members of a family returning from a wedding, Taiwan's railway authority confirmed. In addition to the dead, 187 people were injured in the Sunday afternoon crash.
On Monday morning, the Taiwan Railways Administration released a 12-second video of the moment the Puyuma Express train derailed in northeast Taiwan's Yilan County. The train was carrying 366 passengers.
The video appears to show the engine beginning to roll over the front of the line. The train seemed to show no indication of slowing down before the bend.
All eight of the derailed cars, some knocking over concrete pylons. By Monday morning the wreckage had been cleared from the tracks.
Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, and its first, Lai Ching-te, both visited Yilan County after the accident.
Ms. Tsai visited one of the four local hospitals treating victims. She offers condolences, and prayers with Buddhist monks at a local temple.
The Tung Xiao-ling, 43, a relative of the victims who was not on the train, told Reuters. The victims were attending the wedding of Ms. Tung's sister.
One American was among the injured.
The train accident is the deadliest in Taiwan since 1981, when a collision in Miaoli County, in the island's northwest, killed 31 people.
Taiwan's Central News Agency reported that passengers on the train said that before the train of derailing, the emergency brakes had been applied multiple times, and that it was operating in an abnormal manner.
Mr. Lai, the first one, told locals that he would look into the services of the Puyuma Express, which is the fastest channel serving Taiwan's east coast. It has been in service since 2013.
Lu Chieh-shen, deputy chief of the Taiwan Railways Administration, said that the trainer had five years of experience on the job.
Investigators puts midday Monday with the conductor, who was among the injured and had been hospitalized overnight.
