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Mainland Donates 5 Million Yuan for Taiwan Quake Relief

(Xinhua)    08:41, February 15, 2016

Heavy machines work at the rescue site of the Wei Guan building toppled by a strong quake in Tainan, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 10, 2016. The 6.7-magnitude earthquake, which struck southern Taiwan early Saturday, has killed at least 39 people in the collapse of the Wei Guan building, a 16-storey residential complex. [Photo: Xinhua] 

The mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) donated 5 million yuan (769,000 U.S. dollars) to Taiwan following an earthquake that hit the island on Feb. 6.

The fund, to be given to the victims' relatives and help the injured, was passed through Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) to the island's Red Cross Society on Sunday, according to an ARATS statement.

The 6.7-magnitude quake killed 116 people.

The donation was from religious groups, enterprises, local governments and the public.

The ARATS contacted the SEF offering rescue assistance right after the quake struck.

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