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Rescue Efforts End in Taiwanese City Struck by Quake | Rescue Efforts End in Taiwanese City Struck by Quake |
(about 5 hours later) | |
HONG KONG — Rescue efforts ended on Saturday at the site of a 17-story apartment complex in Tainan, in southwestern Taiwan that collapsed in an earthquake a week earlier, as search crews pulled the last of 114 bodies from the rubble. | |
The magnitude 6.4 quake struck on Feb. 6; nearly all the deaths were at the Wei-Guan Golden Dragon building, only two other people died elsewhere. | |
The police have arrested the building’s developer and two associates, and they have been charged with criminal business misconduct resulting in fatalities, a specific manslaughter charge under Taiwanese law. They have not yet entered pleas. | The police have arrested the building’s developer and two associates, and they have been charged with criminal business misconduct resulting in fatalities, a specific manslaughter charge under Taiwanese law. They have not yet entered pleas. |
Anxious relatives had stood vigil at the building last week, hoping survivors would be found. But Ellen Hsueh, a Tainan municipal spokeswoman, said on Saturday evening that everyone believed to have been inside the building when the quake struck had now been accounted for. | |
Ms. Hsueh said that one person was still listed as missing, a homeless woman who had last been seen near the building. |
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