At least 48 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured after a train in Taiwan derailed inside a tunnel after striking a truck.
The country's Transport Ministry said 36 people had "no signs of life" after the disaster in the east of Taiwan on Friday, while a further 72 are believed to be injured
Rescuers are still battling to reach crushed carriages with the train understood to have been carrying 350 passengers.
Images of the crash scene show carriages inside the tunnel crumbled and ripped apart from the impact.
Passengers were also seen gathering suitcases and bags in a tilted, derailed carriage while others walked along the tracks littered with wreckage.
The official Central News Agency later said a truck that was "not parked properly" was suspected of sliding into the path of the train.
The fire department showed a picture of what appeared to be the truck's wreckage lying next to part of the derailed train.
The Taiwan Railways Administration was reported to have said the derailment happened at 9:28 a.m. on the No. 408 Taroko train.
The train, travelling to Taitung, came off the rails in a tunnel just north of Hualien causing some carriages to hit the wall of the tunnel, the fire department said in a statement.
The train's second and third cars have derailed, say reports.
The train was carrying around 350 people, and rescue efforts are ongoing, the department said.
Between 80 to 100 people have been evacuated from the first four carriages of the train, while carriages five to eight have "deformed" and are hard to gain access to, officials said.
In images provided by the fire department one woman was heard to shout 'is everyone out in carriage four?' from inside the tunnel.
The crash happened at the start of a long weekend for the traditional Tomb Sweeping Day festival.
Taiwan's mountainous east coast is a popular tourist destination.
In 2018, 18 people died and 175 were injured when a train derailed in north-eastern Taiwan, in the island's worst rail disaster in more than three decades.
