PLUCKED FROM THE RUINS: BABY IS AMONG MORE THAN 200 PULLED ALIVE FROM RUBBLE AFTER DEVASTATING 6.4 MAGNITUDE STRIKES TAIWAN ON FIRST DAY OF CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY, KILLING 11
Chris Pleasance and Flora Drury for Mailonline
- At least 11 people have died after multiple residential buildings collapsed as 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan
- A 17-storey residential block which was home to more than 200 residents has collapsed in Tainan City
- Among the dead are ten-day-old baby girl and a 50-year-old man found in the same apartment, and a woman, 55
- A second man, 40, died inside the apartments, while a second woman was hit by a falling water tank, fire crews said
- Another 378 people were injured during the disaster, with a total of 230 pulled alive from the rubble
At least 11 people have died including a ten-day-old baby after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan in the early hours of this morning, causing a 17-storey apartment building to collapse.
Emergency crews are working to free hundreds more people who are feared trapped after the quake struck the southern city of Tainan at around 4am at the start of the Chinese New Year holidays, according to Taiwan's state news agency.
A ten-day-old girl was reported to have died in the disaster alongside a 50-year-old man who was found in the same apartment. Another man, 40, was reportedly killed, as was a 55-year-old woman, according to an emergency response center in Tainan.
Fire crews told Channel News Asia that another woman was killed by a falling water tank at a different location, but did not give any more details.
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Alive: Fire crews are pictured pulling a stunned infant from the wreckage of a 17-storey apartment building in the city of Tainan, Taiwan, after an earthquake struck this morning killing three and leaving hundreds more trapped