A total of 175 people in Hualien have been forced to stay in shelters.
HUALIEN, Taiwan – A continual stream of aftershocks is complicating recovery efforts in Hualien as the authorities began on April 5 to demolish a precariously tilting building that has become the symbol of Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years.
The local authorities granted households there the permission to do so within designated 20-minute periods after assessing that the building would be able to withstand pressure from the aftershocks and stay upright. Top-floor resident Hsiao Yo-juan, 40, told The Straits Times that she managed to retrieve several large bags of clothes for herself and her family, who have been put up at a shelter in a Buddhist temple.
“Over the past few days, we have leaned on one another for comfort. We’re in this together,” she noted.
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