Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/09
By: Yeh Su-ping and Ko Lin
Taipei, Feb. 9 (CNA) Saving lives knows no boundaries, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英
Image taken from President Tsai Ing-wen’s Twitter page
文) tweeted on Friday, expressing sympathy for the five Chinese nationals believed to be trapped in a 12-story building that partially collapsed in an earthquake in Hualien late Tuesday.
“We will not give up any hope,” Tsai said, calling for the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to pray for their safety.
“We hereby extend our deepest sympathies to the families affected by the disaster,” she said on Twitter.
A family of five, the Chinese visitors were staying at the Beauty Inn in the Yun Men Tsui Ti building, one of the structures that tipped over in the magnitude 6.0 earthquake late Tuesday. [FULL STORY]