TAIPEI, TAIWAN—Rescuers were working Wednesday to reach five people trapped and more than 140 people unaccounted for in several buildings damaged by a strong earthquake near Taiwan’s eastern coast. The shallow, magnitude 6.4 quake late Tuesday night caused at least four buildings in worst-hit Hualien county to cave in and tilt dangerously, killing four people. The quake injured 225 people, two dozen of them critically, in Hualien county, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen moved to reassure the Taiwanese public that every effort would be made to look for survivors. Article Continued BelowTsai said she “ordered search and rescue workers not to give up on any opportunity to save people, while keeping their own safety in mind.”Rescure workers search the damaged Marshal Hotel in Hualien, eastern Taiwan, early Wednesday.

Source: thestar February 06, 2018 20:36 UTC