At least 130 people are feared trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed in Tainan city, after an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit Taiwan early on Saturday. At least 19 people died in the temblor, all but two of them casualties of the 16-storey building toppling over. The Wei-guan Golden Dragon residential tower was home to 256 people living in 96 units, while local media said it also housed a care centre for newborns and mothers.

A 20-year-old man was pulled out alive from the debris on Sunday, but Mayor of Tainan William Lai said emergency teams were finding it very difficult to rescue the dozens of others still trapped, The Guardian reported. “Of the 132 people desperately waiting for rescue, 103 people are buried very deep; there’s no way to get to them directly,” he said. Rescue workers are using lighter equipment such as drills to find the 29 people closest to them. “The other 103 are believed to be at the lower floors of the building, and we can’t find an accessible route to those areas at the moment,” Lai explained.