{"id":188393,"date":"2016-02-09T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=188393"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:32:09","slug":"taiwan-quake-developer-of-collapsed-building-whare-dozens-died-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/taiwan-quake-developer-of-collapsed-building-whare-dozens-died-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Quake: Developer of collapsed building whare dozens died arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutors in southern Taiwan have arrested the developer of a building which collapsed during the recent earthquake, killing at least 39 people, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The quake struck at about 4 a.m. Saturday (3 p.m. Friday ET) at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue and recovery work has focused on the wreckage of the 17-story Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building, in Tainan, where more than 100 people are still missing and suspected to be buried deep under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Questions have been raised about the building&#8217;s construction quality, especially materials used to build it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hsiao Po-jen, director of the legal affairs department of the Tainan city government, told Reuters that Lin Ming-hui, the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building&#8217;s developer, was arrested Monday evening on suspicion of negligent homicide, citing information from police and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses at the scene of the collapse have seen large rectangular, commercial cans of cooking-oil packed inside wall cavities exposed by the damage, apparently having been used as building material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local media outlets have also reported the presence of polystyrene in supporting beams, mixed in with concrete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Wei-guan, completed in 1994, was the only major high-rise building in the city of two million people to have completely collapsed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its lower stories, filled with arcades of shops, pancaked on top of each other before the entire U-shaped complex toppled in on itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: NBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors in southern Taiwan have arrested the developer of a building which collapsed during the recent earthquake, killing at least 39 people, officials said Tuesday. 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