Rescuers recover bodies from train wreck as death toll rises to 48

A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday (April 2), killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 in the island's worst rail disaster in almost four decades.

Footage carried by local media showed rescuers carrying out two bodies and one injured passenger from the crash site on Friday afternoon. Taiwan's premier, Su Tseng-chang, visited the crash site. 

The crash, north of the eastern city of Hualien, killed the driver of the train carrying many tourists and people heading home at the start of a long weekend traditional holiday to tend to family graves.

Taiwan media said many people were standing as the train was so crowded, and were tossed about by the crash impact.