people still trapped in tunnels

The vandalized cars on the side of Taiwanese roads bear witness to the violence of the earthquake. Two days after the earthquake, relief operations are concentrated in the tourist gorges of Takoro National Park. They are made particularly delicate by the steep reliefs. Several hundred people remain stranded in these mountains. “We had the impression of being buried alive”confides a survivor trapped in a tunnel.

“There were so many stones falling, like a rain of bullets”

Miners were finally rescued using helicopters. “There were so many stones falling, like a rain of bullets. We didn’t know where to run.”, testifies one of them. In Hualien, the city most affected, the destruction of a building emblematic of the earthquake has begun. It threatened to collapse at any moment.