HUALIEN — A helicopter plucked to safety on Thursday six people stranded in a mining area after Taiwan 's worst earthquake in 25 years, while hundreds of aftershocks rocking the eastern region near its epicentre drove scores more to seek shelter outdoors.
But 660 people were still trapped, most of them in hotels in the park, after the road was cut off, the fire department said, as the discovery of a body on a hiking trail near the entrance to a gorge took the total deaths to ten. Thursday was the start of a long-weekend holiday for the tomb-sweeping festival, when families traditionally return home to attend to ancestral graves, though others will also visit tourist attractions.
All those trapped in buildings in the worst-hit city of Hualien have been rescued, but many residents unnerved by more than 300 aftershocks spent the night outdoors. Dozens of residents queued outside one badly damaged 10-storey building, waiting to go in and retrieve belongings.
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