Rescuers are racing against time to find six people, including a mother and her two young children, who are still missing after Taiwan's most powerful earthquake in 25 years. The search is focused on a rock slide area in eastern Taiwan's Taroko Gorge, a popular tourist destination.
Rescuers are racing to find six people still listed as missing in mountainous terrain five days after the quake, which was Taiwan ’s most powerful in 25 years.and a mother and her two young children are among those still unaccounted for after last week’s quake, Taiwan ’s emergency operation centre said at a briefing on April 8. All five were hiking on a trail in eastern Taiwan ’s Taroko Gorge , one of the island’s most popular tourist destinations.
The latest deaths bring the total number of fatalities from the earthquake to 13, officials said on April 8. Almost 1,150 people have been reported injured. In addition to the five hikers, an employee at a nearby limestone mine is also still missing. Taiwan, which uses a slightly different measure, estimated it as 7.2 and said it was the biggest seismic event to hit Taiwan since 1999. That year, a 7.7-magnitude quake hit the centre of the island, killing more than 2,000 people.
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