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The number of people injured in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan climbs past 1 000.

A general view as workers carry out operations while on an elevated platform of a firefighting truck at the site where a building collapsed, following the earthquake, in Hualien, Taiwan, April 4, 2024.The number of people injured in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Taiwan climbed past 1 000 today though the death toll remained steady at nine, with dozens of workers on their way to a hotel in a national park mostly now found safe.

The fire department said the group was trapped on the cross-island highway which traverses the gorge connecting Hualien with Taiwan’s west coast and is a popular tourist destination.It showed drone footage of some of the hotel workers, along with other people waving from the side of a road, with the crushed back part of a minibus also clearly visible. Another group of 26 workers had also been found, it added.

The railway line to Hualien re-opened ahead of schedule today, although one rural station north of Hualien city remains closed due to damage, the railway administration said.

 

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