A powerful earthquake in Taiwan has brought down a 16-storey apartment complex full of families gathered for the lunar new year celebrations, with at least 13 people dead and many more feared to be trapped.
Rescuers were searching late on Saturday for more than 100 people still missing after the 6.4-magnitude quake struck in the early hours, with the southern city of Tainan bearing the brunt of the damage.
About 340 people were rescued from the rubble over the course of the day. An entire residential complex of four buildings containing almost 100 homes toppled to the ground, with twisted metal girders exposed and clouds of dust rising from the jumbled concrete.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/earthquake-hits-tainan-southern-taiwan-causing-at-least-one-partial-building-collapse
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