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AFP
13 February, 2016, 15:55
Update: 13 February, 2016, 15:55
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More than 100 dead in collapsed Taiwan building: govt

AFP
13 February, 2016, 15:55
Update: 13 February, 2016, 15:55
A rescue worker (C) peers into a gap during the search and rescue operation at the Wei-Kuan complex which collapsed in the 6.4 magnitude earthquake, in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan on 10 February 2016. Photo: AFP

Taipei, Taiwan: Rescuers have found the bodies of more than 100 people killed after an apartment block in Taiwan collapsed during an earthquake one week ago, authorities said on Saturday.

All of the reported residents of the Wei-kuan complex in the southern city of Tainan have been accounted for, according to the local government, as the search for survivors nears an end. 

The death toll now stand at 116, with 114 of the victims from Wei-kuan, according to Tainan government. 

More than 280 people have been pulled from of the rubble of the 16-storey building since the 6.4-magnitude quake struck one week ago. 

Wei-kuan was the only high-rise in Tainan to crumble completely, prompting questions about the construction of the building, which was completed in 1994. 

Prosecutors have taken the developer, Lin Ming-hui, and two of his associates into custody on charges of professional negligence resulting in death over the disaster.

Investigators found flaws in the construction, including a lack of steel reinforcement girders, according to a statement released by the court. 

Pictures of the ruins showed tin cans and foam were used as fillers in the concrete and evidence has emerged that walls may have been knocked down that affected the structure of the building. 

The Tainan city government won a court ruling Friday to freeze the equivalent of almost a million US dollars in assets belonging to Lin and three associates, to prevent anything being disposed of before claims can be made by the victims. 

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