Taiwan quake toll climbs to 35, Ma Ying-jeou to visit

Feb 14, 2016, 11:01
Taiwan quake toll climbs to 35, Ma Ying-jeou to visit

Rescuers have pulled out alive an eight-year-old girl and her aunt from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block, more than 60 hours after it was toppled by an quake.

Wang Ting-yu, a politician who represents the area, told reporters that a woman, Tsao Wei-ling, was found alive under her dead husband.

Another male survivor, Lee Tsung-tien, 42, was pulled out conscious from the sixth floor section of the collapsed building, in the southern city of Tainan, where the rescue efforts of emergency workers and soldiers have been focused.

Search and rescue crews believe there are more than 100 people still buried under the debris.

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Family members of the missing flooded into the information centre to wait for news of their loved ones. Some of them walked around with green name cards around their necks indicating their missing relative's name and location in the building.

About 4,000 rescue workers faced a race against time trying to find survivors among more than 100 people still missing in the ruins of the 17-story Weiguan Jinlong residential complex, the most badly damaged building in Tainan.

"It was all topsy-turvy. I said to her I had to lay on top of her and she said to me it's OK", Ko told reporters at the hospital where he was recovering.

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.

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Before that, rescuers saved a woman who was partly shielded by her dead husband, on the seventh floor of the Wei Guan building. Two survivors were rescued on February 8, after being trapped for more than 50 hours in the rubble of an apartment complex felled by a strong natural disaster in Taiwan on February 6.

The collapse of the high-rise building raised questions about the quality of its construction. Taiwan's interior minister said an investigation would examine whether the developer had cut corners.

Huang Jia-rui, a structural engineer in Tainan, said Taiwan's buildings are not as safe as Japan's, which is a leader in engineering quake-proof structures, but the island is catching up. "But this needs to be evaluated by authorities", he said. It is one of the country's biggest holidays and some people have as many as nine days off. Taiwanese President has subdued the Chinese New Year ceremony to oversee rescue and recovery operations at the national disaster headquarters.

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