Girl, 8, rescued 60 hours after Taiwan quake

Feb 14, 2016, 09:04
Girl, 8, rescued 60 hours after Taiwan quake

Most of those who survived were rescued in the hours immediately after the quake, in which the building collapsed onto itself before toppling.

Taiwanese media named the eight-year-old girl as Lin Su-Chin, and said two more survivors could still be in the building.

Her aunt, Chen Mei-jih, was rescued shortly afterwards.

The quake struck at about 4am (8pm Irish time) on Saturday at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, with nearly all the dead found in Tainan's toppled Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building.

TAIPEI-The mayor whose city was hit by an quake prepared Taiwan for a rise in deaths even as rescue teams freed several survivors trapped in a collapsed apartment building on the third day since the disaster.

More than 100 people are believed to be still under the debris in a disaster that hit just before the Lunar New Year, the most important family holiday in the Chinese calendar.

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The first was a woman who officials said was found lying underneath the body of her husband.

It followed the rescue earlier on Monday of another two survivors - a man and a woman.

"Fortunately we were stuck under a space created by a baby crib and a closet door, so that things won't fall on us and air was able to get in", she said from the hospital, where she was being treated for a leg injury.

Mayor Lai Ching-te was quoted as saying that the number of fatalities could increase to more than 100, mostly consisting of residents of the 16-story building in Yongkang District.

More than 1200 emergency crews and 800 soldiers have engaged in the rescue action in Tainan with the assistance of 23 rescue dogs and some advanced life detection systems.

Family members of the missing flooded into the information centre to wait for news of their loved ones.

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Taiwan's government said in a statement that 36 of the 38 dead were from the Wei-guan building, which was built in 1994.

The 6.4-magnitude quake left 37 confirmed dead, a lot of them from the apartment complex.

While visiting victims at a hospital in Tainan, Tsai also pledged that her government would conduct safety checks on some of Taiwan's ageing buildings and support urban renewal projects.

He said: "In the near future, regarding building management, we will have some further improvements".

However, Al Jazeera's Rob McBride said survivors were still being pulled out 12 hours later.

Yesterday, rescuers noticed that the building's pillars were stuffed with cooking oil and paint cans.

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