Taiwan quake: Rescuers face threat of landslides, rockfalls

Rescuers in Taiwan faced the threat of further landslides and rockfalls in their search yesterday for a dozen people still missing from this week's earthquake, as the death toll rose to 12 and some of the stranded were brought to safety.

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Searchers discovered two more bodies after April 3's 7.4-magnitude quake struck the sparsely populated, largely rural eastern county of Hualien, stranding hundreds in a national park as boulders barreled down mountains, cutting off roads.

As some 50 aftershocks rattled the area overnight, some felt as far away as Taipei, rescuers said about 400 people cut off in a luxury hotel in the Taroko Gorge National Park were safe, with helicopters ferrying out the injured and bringing supplies.