TAIPEI: The toll from a deadly 6.4-magnitude quake in Taiwan rose to 14 on Saturday (Feb 10) as rescuers searching for a missing family of Chinese tourists discovered two more bodies in a partially toppled building. Scores of rescuers combed the rubble at the foot of the 12
TAIPEI: The toll from a deadly 6.4-magnitude quake in Taiwan rose to 14 on Saturday (Feb 10) as rescuers searching for a missing family of Chinese tourists discovered two more bodies in a partially toppled building.
Scores of rescuers combed the rubble at the foot of the 12-storey Yun Tsui apartment block that was left leaning at around a 50-degree angle by the quake, complicating rescue efforts due to fears of an imminent collapse.
The two bodies and the last three missing are believed to be members of a family from Beijing who arrived in Taiwan on Monday, authorities said.
They were staying in a second-floor room at a hotel in the building in the eastern city of Hualien when the quake hit the following night.
“(We) are digging from the fourth floor down and even though the site is leaning at 45 degrees we are making an all-out effort for the rescue,” the Hualien fire department said in a statement.
