Taiwan earthquake: People grappling with deadly aftermathーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
NHK RS seia Satoshi now joins us from the ground he’s in huan City the town closest to the epicenter of the Quake so satosi how is the situation there behind me you can see what’s left of a building it’s become a symbol of the devastation here inan there used to
Be shops on the ground floor including a bookstore people here are telling me it’s actually survived the initial Quake only to fall over during an After Shock when we took the train down from taipe this morning we could see mountains cut open by run R there were also borders on the
Roads but here in the city things feel shockingly normal then sometimes you turn a corner and suddenly you see the damage some buildings even have cracks going up their size but generally people are just carrying on with their daily lives like Japan Taiwan gets you Taiwan
Gets a lot of earthquake one person I spoke to said they are just used it huan is also a major tourism Hub so has that been affected by this earthquake yeah you cannot tell from here but the city is light up against the ocean lots of people come to hike or
Ser and today is the first day of a long weekend in Taiwan despite the Quake our train was full of people still coming to juian I spoke to one woman who said she was confident it would be safe so she decided to come anyway for the most part it seems Taiwanese
Tourists don’t want their holdes to go to waste and what are you hearing about rescue efforts those have pretty much wrapped up here in the city but Taiwanese authorities say there’s still dozens of people stuck in the greater Quan area officials say they are hoping to reach them by
Helicopter but with dozens more still unaccounted for many here and just hoping everyone will be found safe and sound thank you Satoshi that was NHK World seia sadosi reporting from Kuan
NHK World’s Sekiya Satoshi reports on the damage caused by the earthquake in Taiwan from Hualien City, near the epicenter. #taiwan #earthquake
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