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Taiwan deals with the effect of an earthquake which killed four people

Authorities in Taiwan will this morning begin a safety assessment of what will be the world's tallest building after a deadly earthquake hit the capital over the weekend.

China correspondent Tom O'Byrne reports at least four people were killed.

At least two hundred people were injured when the earthquake hit the island, an area prone to destructive quakes. Three workers and a taxi driver were killed at the construction site of the half-completed Taipei Financial Centre when two cranes fell to the street from the 53rd floor. Taipei's mayor Ma Ying-jeou says a safety check will take place before work is allowed resume on the one-hundred storey building. The main south-north freeway is still partly closed, but key industrial sectors near the capital were unaffected and a government spokesman says Taipei's financial markets will open today. Tom O'Byrne, Beijing.

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