Early Friday morning, a passenger train en route from Taipei to Taitung crashed and derailed in a tunnel after colliding with a construction vehicle that appeared to have rolled down a hillside onto the tracks. At least 50 people have died and more than 100 are injured. Host Carol Hills has the story.
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