5 Chinese tourists are believed to be trapped inside the collapsed Yun Men Tsui Ti Building in eastern Taiwan’s Hualien
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/09
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Three days after a deadly magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck
Rescue workers look at device in front of Yun Men Tsui Ti Building. (By Central News Agency)
eastern Taiwan’s Hualien, seven people remain missing, including five Chinese tourists, who were staying in a hotel in the collapsed Yun Men Tsui Ti Building (雲門翠堤大樓).
The seven missing people are all believed to be trapped in the Yun Men Tsui Ti Building (雲門翠堤大樓), including a Canadian couple and five Chinese tourists, all of whom were believed to be staying in the Beauty Inn. The hotel they were staying in is situated in the second and third floors of the 12- story building, which saw its first three floor collapse after the quake struck at 11:50 p.m. on Feb. 6.
The Canadian couple was staying in room 213, and have been identified as Peter So (蘇煒禧) and Freda So (蕭敏瑜), while a Chinese family of five had booked room 201 of the hotel. The family included four adults and one child, who were identified as Yanjie (楊捷), 39; Ting Wenchang (丁文昌), 76; Ting Shouhui (丁守慧), 40; Ho Fenghua (何鳳華), 75; and Yang Haoran (楊浩然), 12. [FULL STORY]