Taiwan prosecutors probe train crash that killed 51

Rescue workers remove a part of the derailed train near Taroko Gorge in Hualien, Taiwan (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

Prosecutors in Taiwan said they have questioned the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a rail track on Friday and caused the country’s worst train disaster in decades.

The train was carrying 494 people at the start of a long holiday weekend when it smashed into a construction truck that slid down a hillside above the tracks, the Taiwan Railway Administration said.