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Friday, February 5, 2016

6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan Saturday February 06,2016

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At least five people have died including a ten-day-old baby after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan in the early hours of this morning, causing a 17-storey apartment building to collapse
Rescue personnel work at a damaged building after an earthquake struck at 4am on Saturday south of Tainan, southern Taiwan 
As well as emergency workers, military personnel are also on site helping to rescue hundreds of people who are believed to be trapped  
Emergency workers peer into apartments after a 17-storey building collapsed in the city of Tainan this morning  
Twisted metal cables and shattered concrete filled the street around this toppled apartment building in Tainan City, Taiwan, this morning  
Several apartment buildings in Tainan were reportedly damaged
Another apartment building that has collapsed on the first floor, completely crushing the cars parked alongside it
While several apartment buildings in Tainan were reportedly damaged, rescue efforts are now solely focused on the 17-storey building

Emergency crews are working to free hundreds more people who are feared trapped after the quake struck the southern city of Tainan at around 4am at the start of the Chinese New Year holidays

Fire crews are pictured pulling a stunned infant from the wreckage of a 17-storey apartment building in the city of Tainan, Taiwan, after an earthquake struck this morning killing three and leaving hundreds more trapped
Multiple infants were pictured being pulled from the apartment today, including this child being passed out of a window by fire crews
The ten-day-old girl and 50-year-old man were reported dead at the scene, while another 55-year-old woman died before reaching hospital (pictured, fire crews take another infant from the rubble)
Alive: Fire crews are pictured pulling a stunned infant from the wreckage of a 17-storey apartment building in the city of Tainan, Taiwan, after an earthquake struck this morning killing three and leaving hundreds more trapped 
While this infant was lucky enough to escape with its life, another ten-day-old baby girl was reported to have been killed along with a 50-year-old man found inside the same apartment

 Firemen help a young woman to escape the wreckage of her apartment building after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan Saturday morning Feb 06,2016, causing it to collapse
Firemen help a young woman to escape the wreckage of her apartment building after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan this morning, causing it to collapse 

 At least 230 people have been pulled from the rubble this morning, but up to 30 more people are feared to be trapped
Rescuers climb up the mangled ruins of the apartment block to reach people trapped on the higher floors
A woman who survived the earthquake is hoisted from the rubble in a cage attached to a crane as fire crews look on earlier today
At least 230 people have been pulled from the rubble this morning, but up to 30 more people are feared to be trapped 
An elderly man with a badly bruised eye winces in pain as rescue workers attempt to lower him out of the rubble of a 17-storey apartment building that collapsed in Tainan this morning 
Many of the injured were pictured being taken out on stretchers, while dozens more appeared bloodied and dazed from the wreckage  
The earthquake was followed least five aftershocks of 3.8-magnitude or more, according to Taiwan's Central Weather Burea 
One Tainan resident told MailOnline that the hospitals in the city are full, whkile water and electricity has largely been cut off

A ten-day-old girl was reported to have died in the disaster alongside a 50-year-old man who was found in the same apartment. Another man, 40, was reportedly killed, as was a 55-year-old woman


TAIWAN EARTHQUAKE BY NUMBERS 

Dead: Five, including a ten-day-old girl
Injured: 378 taken to hospital
Saved: 230 pulled from rubble
Rescuers: 1,200 firemen and soldiers
Trapped: Up to 30 inside apartment block
Magnitude: 6.4, striking at 3.57am
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