EXPANDED EXAMINATIONS:A project to evaluate the structural safety of buildings and to provide subsidies for improvements was expanded to 2,000 buildings
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 14, 2016
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Tainan Mayor William Lai (賴清德) at 4:20pm yesterday announced that the
Members of the Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City fire bureaus contribute to search-and-rescue efforts in Tainan yesterday at the Weiguan Jinlong complex, which collapsed during a magnitude 6.4 earthquake on Saturday last week. Photo: Hung Mei-hsiu, Taipei Times
search-and-rescue operation at the Weiguan Jinlong complex in Tainan, which collapsed in an earthquake on Feb. 6, has come to an end, after the body of the last missing resident was found.
According to Central Emergency Operations Center statistics, the death toll from the magnitude 6.4 earthquake yesterday rose to a total of 116, of which 114 occurred at the Weiguan Jinlong complex, with one person who lived near the complex still missing.
The last body, which was recovered at 3:57pm yesterday, was the building’s management committee chairman, Hsieh Chen-Yu (謝鎮宇), who lived in building G, Lai said.
Tainan Deputy Mayor Tseng Hsu-cheng (曾旭正) said the only person still missing after the earthquake is a woman surnamed Lin (林), who lived near the Weiguan Jinlong complex and had a habit of going out to exercise early every morning. Lin’s family has been unable to contact her since the earthquake. [FULL STORY]
