Girl, 8, Pulled Alive From Taiwan Quake Rubble
An eight-year-old girl has been pulled out alive from the ruins of an apartment block - more than 60 hours after it collapsed following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan.
The girl, named as Lin Su-Chin, was conscious and was taken to hospital for treatment, just moments before her aunt, Chen Mei-jih, was spotted in the wreckage and rescued.
It followed the rescue earlier on Monday of another two survivors - a man and a woman.
One - Tsao Wei-ling - reportedly called out "here I am" as rescuers dug through the rubble and found her shielded under the body of her husband.
Their two-year-old son's body was found nearby.
Another male survivor, Lee Tsung-tien, 42, was pulled out conscious from the sixth floor section of the collapsed building, in the southern city of Tainan, where the rescue efforts of emergency workers and soldiers have been focused.
Cranes, drills, ladders, sniffer dogs and life detection equipment are being used to trace those trapped.
More than 100 people who remain unaccounted for are believed to be buried deep under the wreckage following the disaster in which at least 38 people are known to have died.
Thirty-six of those killed in the quake, which struck at around 4am local time on Saturday, were in the collapsed Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building from which around 170 people have been rescued so far.
Tainan Mayor William Lai said he expected the number of fatalities to exceed 100.
The building's lower floors collapsed on top of each other in the earthquake and then the whole structure toppled, raising questions about the quality of the materials and workmanship used in its construction in the 1990s.
Taiwan's president-elect Tsai Ing-wen said there needed to be a "general sorting out" of old buildings.
"There needs to be a continued strengthening of their ability to deal with disasters," she said.
