A businessman and a woman who was earlier reported alive are the victims
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/21
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Two Taiwanese citizens died in the magnitude-7.1
Rescue work in Mexico. (By Associated Press)
earthquake which struck central Mexico, including a woman who earlier in the day had been reported as having been rescued alive from the rubble, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Thursday evening.
A total of five Taiwanese were believed to have been buried under one collapsed building, while the total death toll from the quake stood at more than 250.
The first Taiwanese national to be reportedly pulled out of the wreckage without a sign of life was Lin Chia-ching (林家慶), who had moved from Paraguay to Mexico for his computer business, reports said. [FULL STORY]