Filipina reported missing in Taiwan quake

February 7, 2018

A Filipino woman was reported missing following a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that hit the tourist city of Hualien in Taiwan on Wednesday.

"A team from the Manila Economic and Cultural Office - Taipei led by the Labor Attache, Atty. Cesar Chavez is in Hualien to personally check on the condition of Filipinos in the area," the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement.

There are around 133,000 Filipinos living and working in Taiwan as of June 2017.

MECO chief Lito Banayo said the Filipina works as a caretaker in a nursing home inside the building that collapsed during the quake.

"As of now retrieval efforts are ongoing. We don't know yet if she's safe," Banayo said in a television interview. DMS