TAINAN: A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing at least 12 people, mostly in a 17-storey apartment building that collapsed, with about five people still missing and feared trapped in the building.
As a search for survivors in the rubble went on, questions were being raised about the construction of the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building, with its floors that pancaked down on each other when the 6.4-magnitude tremor hit at around 4am at the start of a Lunar New Year holiday.
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