Sad news to report this morning after it was confirmed that the Malaysian citizen injured in a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan’s Taroko Gorge National Park on April 18, has now died.
Forty-year-old Choo Yip Chean was hiking the Lushui Trail at the national park in Hualien when the quake occurred. He was injured when hit by falling rocks caused by the shaking.
It was reported that at an earlier media conference in Taiwan that Choo sustained rib fracture, a collapsed lung, and blood accumulation in the pleural cavity (space between visceral and parietal pleurae of the lung).
While he regained consciousness two days after the incident, doctors maintained that he was in critical condition, having suffered serious injuries. Unfortunately, he succumbed to them late Saturday night according to Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry.
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Minister Saifuddin Abdullah has said that the ministry, along with the Malaysian Friendship and Trade Center in Tapei is offering assistance to Choo’s family.
