The last victim's body in a Taiwan train derailment was retrieved on Monday, local media has reported.

So far, 50 people were confirmed dead in the accident. They have all been identified. 

A Chinese mainland student aboard the train that went off the rails last Friday in Taiwan said there were three sudden brakes before the train came to a halt.

"At first, we thought it's an emergency stop due to power failure which led to the derailment of some of the train's carriages," the unidentified student, who was injured in the crash, told China Media Group (CMG) in a phone interview.

"We didn't realize how bad the situation is and we had no idea what actually happened," he noted, adding "We waited for around 20 minutes for rescue because the communications system in the train was damaged."

The student was standing in the first carriage, the one thought to have sustained the least damage during the accident.

The worst railway accident in the region's history killed at least 50 people and injured 200 others. The train slammed into a flatbed lorry that had slid down a slope and settled onto the tracks close to the mouth of a tunnel in Hualien County.

The student said his jaw hit a seat as the train was trying to stop. "I was the only one who got injured in the first carriage," he said.

The owner of the truck that caused the deadly derailment of a train in Taiwan on Friday witnessed the accident happen, local media reported on Monday.

Lee Yi-hsiang was overseeing the construction site near the tunnel where the crash took place and owns the flatbed lorry that slid down a slope and onto the tracks as the train was approaching.

Images have emerged online purportedly showing Lee, along with a man in a dark blue T-shirt, standing at an elevated level and looking down at the crash site after the tragedy happened.

Hualien prosecutors said on Monday that they're looking into the case, including whether Lee and the other man took any emergency action following the crash.

Restoration efforts continued in eastern Taiwan on Monday after a fifth carriage was dragged from the tunnel.

The train, with eight carriages, derailed inside a tunnel in Hualien County on April 2, claiming at least 50 lives and injuring over 200.

The number of people killed when a passenger train derailed in eastern Taiwan was revised up from 48 to 50, local authorities confirmed on Sunday, noting that 48 victims have been identified with two others yet to be confirmed.

A Taiwan court on Sunday withdrew the bail application of Lee Yi-hsiang, manager of a construction site whose truck was believed to have caused a train accident that killed at least 48 people, for rejudgment.

Li issued an apology to the public when removed from his residence by the police on Sunday.

Taiwan transport authorities said on Sunday that railway traffic in Hualien, where a deadly train derailment claimed at least 48 lives on Friday, will resume around April 20. 

The number of injured has risen to 200 while the identities of 48 people have been confirmed, according to a news conference on Sunday. 

The rescue team plans to dissect the last two carriages, though they face difficulties in separating carriages 5 and 6 due to the possibility of human bodies.

The investigation is expected to yield results in two months. 

The head of the island's transport department Lin Chia-lung said he will resign.

The number of people killed when a passenger train derailed in eastern Taiwan was revised from 51 to 48, local media reported on Sunday.

At least 51 people were killed and over 178 others were injured after a passenger train went off the rails inside a tunnel in Taiwan on Friday. It marked the worst railway accident on the Chinese island in 40 years. Local officials fear the death toll could still rise. The train was traveling from Taipei to Taitung with at least 360 people on board.

A total of 47 victims have been identified in Friday's train derailment in eastern Taiwan's Hualien County so far, local authorities said at a press conference on Saturday, adding that a DNA analysis of the remaining four victims is ongoing and results are expected soon.

Local authorities in Taiwan have located the control and monitoring systems of a train that derailed in a tunnel on Friday and killed at least 51 passengers, CTi News reported on Saturday.

The initial investigation results will be out next week, according to the report.

A Taiwan court on Saturday released on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck was believed to have caused a train accident that killed at least 51 people. 

The manager, Lee Yi-hsiang, was released on a bond of about $17,525. The court also banned him from leaving Taiwan for eight months and said he had to stay in Hualien.

The court said that while the truck's fall into the path of the train was possibly due to negligence, there was "no possibility of conspiracy".

Yu Hsiu-duan, head of the Hualien prosecutors' office, said it would appeal against the decision.

At least 51 people were killed, including one French citizen and two Americans, and 188 others wounded when a passenger train carrying at least 350 people derailed in eastern Taiwan's Hualien County on Friday morning, local authorities confirmed on Saturday, adding that a total of 46 victims have been identified so far.

Those who suffered minor injures have been discharged from hospitals, while 41 injured are still receiving medical care, according to local authorities. 

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has mourned for compatriots killed in a train derailment in Taiwan on Friday. 

Xi has been deeply concerned about the accident that caused heavy casualties. 

He sent sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and expressed sympathies to the injured and wished them a speedy recovery. 

A passenger train derailed in a tunnel of the island region Taiwan, resulting in at least 50 people killed and more than 160 others injured, in the region's worst train accident in 40 years. According to local officials, the death toll could still rise. The train was travelling from Taipei to Taitung with nearly 500 people on board.

- 50 people were killed, of whom 44 have been identified

- 40 of the 178 injured remain at hospitals

- First two carriages were separated from the train 

- A previous train passed the tunnel at 09:13 on Friday

- The construction vehicle slid into the passing train between 09:13 and 09:28 on Friday

- The Eastern Trunk Line is out of service, and repair work is expected to be completed in 7 days

The first two carriages were successfully separated from the ill-fated train this morning at around 6:30 and 9:30, local authorities said, adding that they are working on lifting the third. 

The last two carriages, which were heavily damaged inside the tunnel, will be pulled from the other end of the tunnel. 

A section of the third carriage and the fourth to eighth carriages were inside the tunnel when the accident happened, according to site images.

A high-speed train in Taiwan derailed in a tunnel on April 2, leaving at least 50 people dead, including one French citizen, and 146 others injured. All passengers have now been evacuated from the train, and an initial investigation indicates a construction vehicle fell from a  hillside onto the track where it was struck by the train. Officials have released a compensation plan for those killed and injured.

One Chinese mainland student was slightly bruised in a deadly train derailment that occurred on Friday, according to local media citing Taiwan's mainland affairs council.

Fifty people were killed and more than 150 others wounded when a passenger train derailed in eastern Taiwan's Hualien County on Friday.

The council also expressed gratitude to the sympathies and condolences sent from the mainland.

Prosecutors in Taiwan have sought an arrest warrant for a construction site manager whose vehicle is believed to have caused a train accident that killed at least 50 people, local media reported.

Hualien prosecutors office told reporters on late Friday that prosecutors are looking for evidence at the scene and relevant locations.

The accident happened when the construction company's vehicle fell from a slope at a nearby construction site and hit the passing train at a tunnel's mouth.

Local authorities suspect the driver parked the vehicle without engaging the emergency brake, but further investigation into the cause is ongoing.

(With input from Reuters)

Taiwan's fire department officials on Friday night revised the official death toll from the train derailment in Hualien County from 51 to 50.

The authorities said inquisitors at the scene miscounted a bag of unidentified body parts as a fatality, hence the inaccurate toll.

Rescuers are trying to evacuate passengers of a train that derailed in a tunnel in Hualien County in the eastern Taiwan region on April 2. Local authorities said at least dozens of people have been killed, with over 100 injured. The eight-carriage express train was traveling from Taipei to Taitung, and had at least 350 people on board. Authorities said the accident occurred after a maintenance vehicle fell onto the train's path.

- At least 51 people were killed in the accident, including 49 passengers and two train drivers. Officials said 146 others were wounded and sent to hospitals. 

- One French passenger was among the dead, and two Japanese were injured. 

- It will take approximately five days to get the train out of the tunnel where the accident happened.

- The next presser on the accident will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday for more updates.

The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) on Friday extended condolences to the families of Taiwan's train accident victims.

At least 54 people were killed and 156 others wounded when a passenger train carrying at least 350 people derailed in eastern Taiwan's Hualien County on Friday morning, local media TVBS reported.

The driver of the train and his assistant died in the accident, the report said.

At least 48 people were killed and 66 others wounded when a passenger train derailed in eastern Taiwan's Hualien County on Friday morning, local authorities said.

No passengers were left trapped in the train's carriages, authorities said on social media at 16:11 local time.

A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Friday expressed condolences and sympathy to the casualties caused by a train derailment in Taiwan.

"The mainland is highly concerned about the rescue progress," said Ma Xiaoguang, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.

At least 40 people were feared dead with many others injured after a passenger train carrying around 350 people derailed in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan region on Friday, according to local media.

The train, which was traveling to Taitung, came off the rails in a tunnel at around 9:00 a.m. local time, causing some carriages to hit the walls, the fire department said. A rescue mission is underway.