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Over 100 missing, 14 dead as quake rattles Taiwan

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Tainan: Rescuers were searching late Saturday  for more than 100 people still missing after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn, causing a high-rise residential building to collapse and killing at least 14 people.  About 2,000 firefighters and soldiers scrambled with ladders, cranes and other equipment to the ruins of the 17-floor residential building, which folded like an accordion.
lEarlier report on P-9

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