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1,700 killed in Taiwan earthqu
Foreign crews, U.N. damage-assessment team sent to assist in rescue
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers scrambled
through the night Tbesday to unearth thousands
of people trapped under debris from Taiwan’s sec
ond-deadliest earthquake, which killed more than
1,700 people and left hundreds reported missing.
More than 100,000 Taiwanese were homeless
after the 7.6-magnitude quake toppled houses
and high-rise apartment complexes across cen
tral Taiwan. Roads buckled, chunks of land rose
up to create new hills and a bridge was left dan
gling in the air.
By early Wednesday, officials said 1,712 peo
ple were dead, more than 4,000 were injured
and almost 3,000 were believed trapped in the
rubble. Some 216 were missing, according to the
Interior Ministry’s disaster management center.
About 4 million households were still with
out power early Wednesday, utility officials said.
Taiwan is hit by dozens of quakes each year,
but most are centered in the Pacific Ocean east
of the island and cause no damage. The island’s
deadliest quake, with a 7.4 magnitude, killed
3,276 people in 1935.
“We’re pulling the dead out one by one, but
it’s hard to get an overall picture of the number
of fatalities,” Chen Wen-hsien, a rescue official
in the central city of Fengyuan, about 30 miles
from the epicenter, said. He had to cover his
nose with tissue after part of a building began
shifting from an aftershock, releasing the stench
of a corpse still inside.
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau listed the
quake as a 7.3 magnitude, a little less than the
U.S. Geological Survey’s estimate. The bureau
said the quake’s epicenter was in Nantou Coun
ty, 120 miles south of the capital Taipei, where
most of the deaths occurred.
Morgues filled up with bodies, and officials
appealed for donations of bulldozers, cars,
quilts and food. Rescue crews from the United
States, Singapore, Japan, Switzerland and Rus
sia were on their way to provide assistance, as
was a U.N. disaster assessment team.
Taiwan’s political nemesis, the communist
regime in Beijing, offered aid with a subtle dig.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin said the disas
ter “hurt the hearts of people on the mainland, as
the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan
Strait are as closely linked as flesh and blood.’’
China’s Red Cross said it would provide the
equivalent of $100,000 in disaster aid and
$60,000 worth of relief supplies. Foreign Ministry
spokesperson Zhang Qiyue said Beijing will pro
vide “all assistance within our capability.”
The Taipei government expressed cautious
gratitude for the assistance.
“This would be a good beginning to improv
ing ties,” Su Chi, chair of the government Main
land Affairs Council, which is responsible for
Taiwan’s relations with China, said. “I hope we
can work on this basis and make efforts togeth
er to build up stable and peaceful relations."
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