Taiwan Train Accident Kills Least  18 and Injures 175
                                                    Oct. 23-2018
                            
                                            


離淡水開車不到一個半小時路程上，發生了普悠瑪號翻車的悲慘事故，這也是在台灣歷史上發生的最嚴重的火車事故之一。


我們組一行四人的團隊在下午由淡水起程前往羅東，誠心的想要為了在事故中受傷的傷者們提供一些幫助、禱告及關懷


但是當我們到達了安置那些傷者的醫院時，醫護人員告知我們有許多的傷者都是重症傷者被安置於特別加護病房中，或者有些傷者已轉往至其他醫院治療，所以我們無法探訪及慰問那些傷者及他們的家屬...，但醫院工作人員對我們還是表示歡迎，並且安排我們在醫院中爲其他病患做禱告及關懷。


另外我們也藉此機會與在醫院門口長時間守候的記者和攝影師們交談，並發出福音單張給他們，還有並為其他有需要的人們做禱告和傳福音....。

Less than 1 ½  hour drive  by car , one the worst train accidents took place in the history of Taiwan took place.

Our  small team of 4 , left in the afternoon, in an effort to bring some help and prayer to those injured or traumatized in the accident.

Though many were in intensive care, we were not able to meet the injured or their families,  but the Hospital Staff welcomed us, and let us minister to the other patients in the Hospital.
 
We also  took the opportunity to talk to the reporters and photographers as well and give out Gospel tracts and pray for those in need.


 

                                              Central News Agency via Agence France-Presse

Eighteen people have been killed and 175 others injured when one of Taiwan's newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route.
Key points:
  • The government said the train had been carrying 366 people
  • Some passengers were crushed to death after the train cars turned over
  • More than 100 soldiers are helping firefighters rescue those trapped inside

The Puyuma express train was travelling from a suburb of Taipei toward Taitung, a city on Taiwan's south-east coast, when it went off the tracks at 4:50pm (local time), the Taiwan central government said in a statement.

The National Fire Agency had earlier cited the Cabinet spokesman's office as saying 22 people were killed, but later lowered the toll to 18, saying there was a mistake in the calculations.

All 366 passengers onboard — including the dead and injured — had been evacuated or removed from the wreckage, the Taiwan Railways Administration said.

"The train was going very fast. I thought to myself: Why was it not slowing down on a curve?" 30-year-old Henry Tseng, who was onboard one of the overturned carriages and suffered eye injuries, told Reuters.

"I hit a wall when the car started to flip. Around five to six people were thrown out of the carriage door.
There's no time to think what happened. Everyone was in a rush to get out."

 
Some passengers were crushed to death, Ministry of National Defence spokesman Chen Chung-chi said.


"Their train car turned over. They were crushed, so they died right away,” he said.About 120 soldiers were called to the site to help remove bodies so that they could be identified, he added, but nightfall was complicating rescue work.



Photos from the scene just south of the city of Luodong showed the train's eight cars in a zig-zag formation near the tracks. Five of the cars are turned over on their sides.
Most of the deaths were in the first car, which flipped over, a government spokesman said.
 

Local television reports said passengers were trying to escape through train windows and that bystanders had gathered to help them before rescuers arrived.   Authorities are investigating the cause of the derailment.