Rescuers found nine people alive in Jiuqu Cave, a famous tourist destination in Taiwan, after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Hualien County.
Post-earthquake landslides in Hualien, Taiwan (China), after the earthquake. (Photo: AFP/TTXVN)
On April 5, Taiwanese rescue forces (China) rescued 9 people trapped inside a cave with winding terrain along the mountainside in the east of this territory after a magnitude 10 earthquake. large 7.3 in Hualien district.
Rescuers found nine people alive in Jiuqu Cave, a famous tourist destination in Taiwan.
Once brought to the surface, one woman said she kept praying and described the quake as sounding like “a bomb.”
Also on April 5, rescue forces found two more victims missing in the earthquake. Neither of these people showed any signs of life.
Previously, on April 3, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred in the sea near Hualien district, resulting in many aftershocks.
The strongest earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years left at least 10 people dead and more than 1,100 injured.
More than 600 people were trapped but have been located, while 11 people were lost contact.
Currently, the search for missing people is still urgently going on./.