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| Relatives, religious leaders and government officials attend a memorial for the victims of the collapsed building complex caused by an earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. The 16-story Weiguan Golden Dragon complex was the only building to collapse during Saturday's magnitude-6.4 earthquake, which otherwise caused limited damage in the southern city of Tainan. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai) |
Rescuers have pulled out
113 dead a week since a powerful earthquake struck Taiwan's oldest city of Tainan,
leaving only four missing in the rubble of a collapsed 17-story residential
complex, authorities said Saturday.
Associated
Press report continues:
All
but two of the dead were found at the ruins of the Weiguan Golden Dragon
complex, which toppled when the 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck last Saturday
during the Lunar New Year holiday.
A
total of 327 people in the building survived.
According
to Taiwan's Interior Ministry, workers extracted scores more bodies on Friday
and Saturday morning. Four are still listed as missing.
Authorities
have detained the building's developer Lin Ming-hui and two architects this
week on suspicion of negligent homicide amid accusations his firm cut corners
in the construction.
Tainan
city officials said they will inspect several dozen other developments built by
Lin, as well as other buildings in the Weiguan compound that did not collapse.
Earthquakes frequently strike
Taiwan, but usually cause little or no damage, particularly since more
stringent building regulations were introduced following a magnitude-7.6 quake
in 1999 that killed more than 2,300.
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