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Taiwan earthquake injuries climb above 1,000, missing hotel workers found
Buildings also shook violently in capital Taipei, but damage and disruption there was minimal.
Taiwan's authorities said the number of injured had reached 1,099, putting the total number of missing at 52.
Rescue workers located most of the roughly 50 hotel workers marooned on a highway as they headed to a resort in the Taroko Gorge national park.
The fire department said the group was trapped on the cross-island highway, which traverses the gorge connecting Hualien with Taiwan's west coast and is a popular tourist destination.
It showed drone footage of some of the hotel workers, along with other people, waving from the side of a road, with the crushed back part of a minibus also clearly visible. Another group of 26 workers had also been found, it added.
Rescue workers also reached the same hotel in the gorge, cut-off by the quake, by helicopter and established all 400 people there were safe. The fire department said work would continue in the morning to re-open the road.
