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About 120 people remain buried within a tower block that collapsed during an earthquake in Taiwan.
Officials believe it will be possible to easily reach some of those trapped – but another 103 are buried deeper within the crumpled 17-storey building.
Acoustic equipment and sniffer dogs are being used to look for signs of life.
At least 23 people – including a newborn baby girl – have been confirmed dead after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck at about 4am on Saturday.
Seventeen of those killed were in the collapsed apartment block in the city of Tainan, which has a population of two million …. http://news.sky.com