Taiwan earthquake death toll rises to 9

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Nine people were killed, 265 injured and 62 still missing as of 7:00 am Thursday after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit Taiwan's Hualien county.

Rescuers work in front of a collapsed building in quake-hit Hualien county, Taiwan, Feb 7, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

The victims include three tourists from the mainland. Two of them were found in the damaged Yun Men Tusi Ti building in the early hours of Thursday morning.

A female tourist from Fujian province was rescued from the same building Wednesday, but was declared dead at 9:00 pm Wednesday after treatment failed.

According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, the earthquake jolted waters near Hualien county at 11:50 pm Tuesday.

It was the most severe earthquake to hit Hualien in five decades, according to Fu Kun-Chi, the head of Hualien county.

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