{"id":63123,"date":"2024-04-06T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/06\/taiwan-earthquake-over-600-people-remain-stranded-days-after-disaster"},"modified":"2024-04-06T15:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T06:23:49","slug":"taiwan-earthquake-over-600-people-remain-stranded-days-after-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63123","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan earthquake: over 600 people remain stranded days after disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I kept praying and praying\u2019, says rescued woman as search for four people missing from hiking trail set to resume following Wednesday\u2019s quake<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers in Taiwan planned to bring in heavy equipment on Saturday to try to recover two bodies buried on a hiking trail, while more than 600 people remained stranded in various locations, three days after the island\u2019s strongest earthquake in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Four people remain missing on the same Shakadang Trail in Taroko national park, famed for its rugged mountainous terrain. Search and recovery work was set to resume after being called off on Friday afternoon because of aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>At least 12 people were killed by the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck on Wednesday morning off Taiwan\u2019s east coast, and 10 others were still missing.<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 people \u2013 including about 450 at a hotel in the Taroko park \u2013 remained stranded, cut off by rockslides and other damage in different areas. However, many were known to be safe as rescuers deployed helicopters, drones and smaller teams with dogs to reach them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/06\/taiwan-earthquake-over-600-people-remain-stranded-days-after-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I kept praying and praying\u2019, says rescued woman as search for four people missing from hiking trail set to resume following Wednesday\u2019s quakeRescuers in Taiwan planned to bring in heavy equipment on Saturday to try to recover two bodies buried on a hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1283,50,263,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bolivia","category-china","category-earthquakes","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123\/revisions\/63124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}