The number of earthquake victims in Taiwan has been announced
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As a result of the strongest earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years, nine people were killed and more than 900 were injured on Wednesday.
As reported by Reuters, also 50 workers traveling in minibuses to a hotel in the national park, went missing.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred in Taiwan the day before. The mountainous, sparsely populated Hualien took the brunt of the tremors.
The natural disaster caused massive landslides, about two dozen buildings were destroyed or damaged.