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, roads in mountainous areas were blocked by multiple landslides.
Interior Minister Lin Yu-chang, who chairs the Central Emergency Operation Centre (CEOC), said on Friday that hundreds of people were still stranded in some isolated sites in the national park but they are not in danger.
The death toll remained at 10 from the earthquake, but the number of injured rose to 1,123, with 634 people trapped. Thirteen people are missing, including a Canadian national and two Singaporeans holding Australian passports.
On Friday, rescue teams found two people pinned down under a pile of huge rocks with no signs of life, according to the National Fire Agency (NFA). Rescue workers were still trying to remove the two bodies, officials said. Once identified, they would take the death toll to 12.
At Silks Place Taroko Hotel, around 400 people were still trapped, but 58 people had been rescued by helicopter on Friday, Interior Minister Lin said in an update in the afternoon.