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Earthquake hit Taiwan

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An eight-year-old girl has been pulled alive in the debris of an apartment building in Taiwan more than 60 hours after an earthquake ruined it. As they rushed against time to locate over 100 residents rescuers in Tainan City freed two other survivors before on Monday.

At least 38 people died in the magnitude 6.4 quake on Saturday.One of those saved was a girl located lying underneath her husband’s body. Their infant son was found dead nearby. The girl, Tsao Wei-ling, was conscious and was taken to hospital.

Rescuers said it seemed she had been shielded by her husband’s body from a falling column. Five of the couple’s family members stay missing, Taiwan’s government-run Central News Agency reported.A man rescued on Monday had been speaking to rescuers through the night.

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Seven dead and dozens still trapped after 17-storey apartment building collapses

A powerful earthquake hit Taiwan on Saturday killing at least seven people, most in a 17-storey apartment building that failed, with about 35 people still feared trapped there hours into a rescue operation.

As a hunt for survivors in the debris went on, questions were being raised about the construction of the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building, with its floors that pancaked down on each other when the 6.4 magnitude tremor hit at around 4 a.m. (2000 GMT), at the start of a Lunar New Year holiday.

Five of the dead, including a 10-day-old girl, were from the apartment building in the southern city of Tainan.

Rescuers mounted hydraulic ladders and a crane to scour the ruins, plucking more than 220 survivors to safety, with dozens taken to hospital, a fire brigade official said. Buildings in nine other places in the town of 2 million individuals had failed and five were left tilting at alarming angles, a government emergency center said.

But a fire department official said rescue efforts were focused on the apartment block, the place where a kid ‘s clothing fluttered from a first floor laundry line and also the smell of leaking gas hung in the air.