Taiwan
Earthquake: 116 confirmed dead in Tainan
as search for survivors concluded
A
rescue operation taking place after the Taiwan earthquake has been
concluded as the remains of the last *unaccounted for person was pulled
from the wreckage of the Weiguan Jinlong apartment complex. In total 116 people
have been confirmed dead after the powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake, with all
but two of the victims living at the 17-storey Weiguan Jinlong (Golden Dragon)
building.
The earthquake
struck the southern
Taiwanese city of Tainan
on 7 February leaving the city *strewn with twisted metal, fallen bricks and
concrete *debris. The city had a population of 1.9 million people and on
Friday 12 February, the president and president-elect attended a memorial
service for the dead and missing.
Tainan City mayor William Lai announced an end to the operation on Saturday (13
February) as the remains of Hsieh Chen-yu were discovered at 3.57pm local time.
In total 289 people were pulled out of the collapsed building with 173 still
alive and 96 remain in hospital.
Although
residents lived in the upper regions of the complex, its lower stores were
filled with *arcades of shops which initially gave way under the strain of the
quake before the whole of the U-shaped construction was destroyed. The last
survivor was *dragged out of the wreckage on Monday evening (8 February).
The Taiwanese government immediately launched an investigation into the construction of the building
complex after blue cans were pictured – reportedly used as construction fillers
in the beams. Reports from the city suggest that the residents living in the
building, constructed in 1989, had often complained of problems like tiles
falling from walls, *malfunction of lifts and the building having too few
reinforcing bars.
Lin
Ming-hui, former chairman of the now *disbanded Weiguan company, and
two other former *executives Chang Kui-an and Cheng Chin-kui now face charges
of professional *negligence resulting
in death after appearing in court on Wednesday 10 February.
Hsieh, a member of the
blocks management committee "might have wanted to wait until everyone else
had left", Lai said, according to the Central News Agency. He added that the:
"The search and rescue has come to an end".
what : A building collapsed
who : Lin Ming-hui
where : A
building named Weiguan Jinlong in Tainan
when : February ,2016
why : Because a 6.4-magnitude earthquake took
place
how : the design of the building had some terrible
trouble to make the building collapse
keyword
*unaccounted (adj.)未說明的
*strewn (n.)錯落
*debris (n.)碎片;殘骸
*arcades (n.)長廊商場;騎樓
*dragged out of (ph.)拖長
*malfunction (n.)故障
*disbanded (v.)解散
*executives (n.)執行者
*negligence (n.)疏忽;隨便
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