1 dead as earthquake sparks blaze
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ONE man died and another was taken to hospital yesterday after a fire caused by a powerful earthquake off Taiwan that set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei.
Japanese forecasters had warned that the 6.6-magnitude earthquake could cause a tsunami as high as a meter affecting several islands in the Okinawa chain, but lifted the alert around an hour later.
A four-story apartment building in part of New Taipei City caught ablaze after an electrical box outside the block exploded.
A 65-year-old man who lived in the building “showed no signs of life” at the scene, the fire service said.
An 18-year-old resident is in hospital with smoke inhalation but is not in a serious condition.
Residents and workers were evacuated from a building in central Taipei because of a feared gas leak and vehicles in a nearby multi-storey carpark were overturned, but no one was injured.
Kuo Kai-wen, chief of Taiwan’s Seismology Center, warned there could be more quakes on the island.
“This was the third quake measuring more than 6.0 magnitude in Taiwan so far this year — we would not rule out the likelihood that there might be more strong quakes of this scale.”
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