Flats destroyed in Taiwain earthquake were reinforced with cooking oil cans

[My Everything]

Pictures of the apartment complex destroyed in the Taiwan earthquake on Saturday show that its walls appear to have been built using empty cooking oil cans.

Rescuers are racing against time to save more than 125 people stuck beneath the rubble of the block of flats in Tainan, Taiwan after a powerful earthquake struck the southern part of the island on Saturday.

The death toll for the 6.4 magnitude earthquake has now reached 24, with 22 of the victims found in the toppled Tainan building including a ten-day-old girl and two other children.

While Tainan's government says the building had obtained its construction permit legally, images show large rectangular, commercial cans of cooking-oil packed inside wall cavities exposed by the damage, apparently having been used as building material.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3435755/Toddler-pulled-rubble-24-hours-6-4-magnitude-earthquake-Taiwan-death-toll-rises-24-158-people-remain-missing.html?ito=social-facebook

[Coffee Biscuit]

Hey, don't you insult them for saving cost.

 

Do you know how much does cement worth? They worth more than those people's lives.

 

 

 

Well, I guess we found out how a 17-story building manage to fold like handmade paper fan now...

[Rapmon's Ahjussi Husband]

I wonder how Taiwan goverment check buildings constructions?, sad

[�SHERRY�]

wtf a cooking oil can as building material????   they better put those ppl responsible in jail cos if they were to use proper material the building probably wont collapsed.

[Coffee Biscuit]

wtf a cooking oil can as building material????   they better put those ppl responsible in jail cos if they were to use proper material the building probably wont collapsed.

 

Those are paint cans dammit.

 

They're at least 3x more sturdy than cooking oil cans.

Perfectly justifiable material for half-assing a construction of high buildings

[male:ko]

When I see this picture is like remember the earthquake of Mexico in 1985 the cost of many lifes because the buildings were poorly constructed. 

 

Taiwan, my best wishes.