Watch as badminton players flee for their lives as sports centre ceiling COLLAPSES during 6.8 magnitude earthquake

 

This is the terrifying moment when the roof of a badminton stadium collapsed during a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan.

Dozens of people were playing on the fifth floor of a sports center near the capital, Taipei, just before 3 p.m. on Sunday when the devastating earthquake struck.

Shocking footage showed the roof collapsing in the middle of the match, causing players to flee for their lives in just seconds.

One man was injured by falling debris, while the others narrowly escaped the wounded.

The roof was reportedly only renovated in recent days.

Sunday's quake was the largest among dozens to rock the southeast coast of Taiwan since Saturday evening, when an earthquake struck 6.

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Most of the damage appears to have been north of the epicenter, which was in the town of Qichang at a relatively shallow depth of four miles.

In the neighboring town of Yuli, a cement factory worker was killed and a three-story building that had a small shop on the ground floor and apartments above it collapsed.

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The owner of the building and his wife were quickly rescued -

But it took longer to reach the 39-year-old and her 5-year-old daughter.

The image of the girl lying on a blanket handed over to her by rescue workers in orange uniforms showed a metal ladder from atop the rubble.

More than 7,000 households in Yuli were without power, and water pipes were damaged.

Shelves and musical instruments overturned at Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church and a long crack occurred on the church floor.

Outside on the street, the sidewalk was shattered into concrete slabs from the force of the earthquake.

Police and firefighters also rushed to a destroyed bridge in a rural area of ​​the same city.

And in the same area, a landslide trapped nearly 400 tourists on a mountain famous for its orange daylilies on its slopes at this time of year.

The stuck group managed to climb slowly down the mountain all night,

With only another 90 down on Monday.

Meanwhile, falling debris derailed a train in the town of Ben Yuli and the epicenter of the earthquake in Qichang.

Taiwan's transport minister said parts of the railway that collapsed during the quake would take up to a month to repair.

The US Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning in Taiwan following the earthquake

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