The death toll from the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday has risen to 12: Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK reports. The island's authorities, in fact, today found two more bodies on a mountain path in Hualien County, the county hardest hit by the earthquake. Meanwhile, the wounded have exceeded 1,100, while over 10 people are still missing.
Rescue operations in Taiwan, which began after Wednesday's powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4, the most powerful in the last 25 years, are proceeding with caution due to the risks associated with further landslides and rock falls, while searches for about a dozen people still missing. More than 50 aftershocks were recorded overnight, signaling that the phenomenon could last several days.
Nine people have been freed from a popular tourist cave called the 'Tunnel of Nine Turns' in Taroko National Park. In the city of Hualien, however, workers began demolishing the Uranus Building, the 10-story building that tilted at a 45-degree angle after half of its first floor collapsed due to the tremor. The operations could last two weeks
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