TAIWAN: FIRE DEPARTMENT continue to seek to 121 persons missing in the earthquake

Rescuers continued their search today for 123 people missing in the earthquake that yesterday morning shook the south of Taiwan.According to the latest information, in the powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter scale have killed at least 23 people.Most of them died in the city of Tainan, where the earthquake occurred due to the demolition of a building with 16 floors with 300 apartments.

At the site of the accident rescuers managed to save three people, including a boy and his father.Tainan Mayor William Lai said it was a priority to save the villagers who remained trapped in the rubble.In yesterday's earthquake injured at least 500 people.An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 degrees per Rithterovoj scale that has hit Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.