Body of missing Filipina in quake-hit Taiwan found

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Rescue and emergency workers block off a street where a building came off its foundation, the morning after a 6.4-magnitude quake hit the eastern Taiwanese city of Hualien, on February 7, 2018. Rescue workers scrambled to search for survivors in buildings left tilting precariously on their foundations. / AFP / Paul Yang/

(Eagle News) — The body of the Filipina who was reported missing after a 6.4-magnitude quake struck Taiwan on Tuesday has been found.

Lito Banayo, head of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office, said in an interview over dzbb on Thursday that the body of Melody Castro Albano was discovered at 5:45 p.m.

Albano, who is from Abulog, Cagayan, worked as a caretaker in a nursing home in Hualien, the popular tourist city in Taiwan where the quake struck.

The powerful earthquake killed at least 10 people and injured 265 others.

Many are still missing.