A helicopter had on Thursday, flown six people stranded in a mining area to safety after Taiwan’s worst earthquake in 25 years.
The death toll from Wednesday’s 7.2-magnitude quake had risen to 10, with the number of injured persons reported to be at 1,067, according to the authorities.
Right now though, 660 people are still trapped, most of them in hotels in the park, after the road was cordoned off.
A helicopter had flown to safety, six miners trapped on a cliff in an over the top rescue mission, after the quake had cut off the roads into Hualien’s soaring mountains.
The agriculture ministry has urged people to stay away from the mountains because of the risk of falling rocks and the formation of “barrier lakes” as water coalesces behind unstable debris.
People in largely rural and sparsely populated Hualien county were preparing to head to work and school when the earthquake struck offshore on Wednesday.
Buildings had shook violently in Taipei, but the capital suffered negligible damage and disruption.
