At least 34 dead in Taiwan train crash

Rescue workers are seen near the site of a partial train derailment in Toroko Gorge in Taiwan’s east on Friday (National Fire Agency Department/AP)

At least 34 people have died after a passenger train smashed into a vehicle on its tracks and partially derailed outside a tunnel in Taiwan.

Dozens more have been injured and survivors are climbing out of windows and onto roofs to reach safety in the island’s worst railway disaster in decades.