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Nine people stuck on a scenic mountain road after Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years were rescued on Friday, images on television showed. “I heard huge sound like an explosion … I could do nothing but kept praying,” a woman rescued from the tunnel told reporters, according to Taiwan’s SET News channel. They had been stuck in the Tunnel of Nine Turns, a section of mountain trail in Taroko Gorge where overhanging rocks form open tunnels, affording stunning views in the national park. In the eastern city of Hualien, around which Wednesday’s massive 7.2-magnitude earthquake was centred, roa…

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