An Australian MP believed she was going to die in Taiwan’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday when her hotel room starting shaking so violently she and her husband could not get up off the bed. The quake was Taiwan’s strongest in 25 years, killing nine people and injuring more than 900 with the toll expected to rise — 50 people are still reported missing.
Aussie caught up in Taiwan speaks of earthquake horror West Australian MP Tania Lawrence said she thought “this was our time”, telling Sunrise hosts Barr and Matt Shirvington on Thursday that she and her husband, who was travelling with her, had feared for the worst. “The shake of the building was so violent, so extreme, we could not get out of the bed,” Lawrence, said.
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