No Filipinos hurt in twin quakes in Taiwan

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FIREFIGHTERS work at the site where a building collapsed following the earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, in this handout provided by Taiwan’s National Fire Agency on April 3, 2024. — TAIWAN NATIONAL FIRE AGENCY/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS

THE DEPARTMENT on Migrant Workers (DMW) said on Tuesday that no Filipino casualties were reported following the back-to-back magnitude 6 earthquakes that rocked Taiwan earlier in the day.

In a virtual briefing, DMW Officer-in-Charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac said that DMW officers have conducted relief operations with the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan for the 16 Filipinos previously injured during the 7.4 magnitude earthquake on April 3.

A total of 13 people died in the April 3 earthquake, while a thousand people were hurt.

The United States Geological Survey said Tuesday’s earthquakes measured magnitude 6.1, with its epicenter located south of the city of Hualien. Several other quakes registering as low as a magnitude 4.5 to a magnitude 6 near Hualien, were also recorded later in the day.

Meanwhile, the DMW reported the continuous distribution of relief goods to about a thousand more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) caught in the flooding in Dubai.

Last week, the DMW reported that three workers from the Philippines died in heavy flooding in the United Arab Emirates, with two women suffocating in a car and a man who died when his car fell into a sinkhole. — John Victor D. Ordoñez