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8-year-girl rescued 60 hrs after Taiwan quake, toll rises to 40

(Xinhua) Updated: 2016-02-09 08:22
8-year-girl rescued 60 hrs after Taiwan quake, toll rises to 40

An 8-year-old girl (C) is rescued from the rubble of an apartment complex in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on Feb 8, 2016, about 60 hours after the complex collapsed due to a magnitude 6.7 earthquake. [Photo/IC]

Before that, rescuers saved a woman who was partly shielded by her dead husband, on the seventh floor of the Wei Guan building.

So far, the 6.7-magnitude earthquake, which struck southern Taiwan two days ahead of the lunar new year, has killed at least 40 people, all but two in the collapse of the 16-storey residential complex.

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