At least 21 injured in Taiwan train explosion

An explosion on a train in Taiwan’s capital left at least 21 people injured on Thursday, Taiwan’s official news agency reported.

The incident occurred at the Songshan railway station in central Taipei. Witnesses reported hearing a series of loud explosions before one of the train carriages caught fire.

The Taipei Fire Department sent trucks and ambulances to the scene and extinguished the fire. The cause of the explosion still is not known.Taiwan has had its share of explosions, once in 2014 and the other in 2015. In 2014, a series of explosions occurred in Kaohsiung district following reports of gas leaks the night before. At least 32 people were killed and around 321 others were injured.

In 2015, a fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Formosa water park in Taiwan where more than 500 people were injured, fifteen of them died. The fire was sparked by an accidental explosion of an unknown powder near the stage in front of about 1,000 people.