Taipei Times
Date: Feb 09, 2018
By: Su Yung-yao, Yu Yao-fu, and Lin Hsin-han  /  Staff reporters

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday paid another visit to areas of Hualien that

Displaced earthquake affected residents rest at the Hualien County Stadium in Hualien yesterday.  Photo: EPA-EFE

were devastated by Tuesday’s earthquake and ate dinner with evacuated residents temporarily being sheltered in the county’s indoor stadium, where the president also planned to stay overnight.

The president continued to command units responding at collapsed building sites and stopped at an ad hoc command center for the rescue effort at the Yun Men Tsui Ti (雲門翠堤大樓) commercial and residential complex for a briefing, before a late afternoon visit at an elementary school, that has been turned into a temporary evacuation shelter.

In the evening, Tsai visited the Hualien County Stadium, which is also being used as a temporary shelter.    [FULL  STORY]