The search is continuing in Taiwan for people who may be trapped in a toppled building, five days after a powerful earthquake.  

At least 39 people were killed in the earthquake on Saturday -- most of them in the toppled 17-storey building.

Family members kept a hopeful vigil that more of their loved ones would be brought out alive.

Members of a Buddhist charity prayed in a shelter just outside the search site.

Questions have been raised about the construction of the 22-year-old building which is the only one in the city that collapsed.

The developer of the building and two men from his management team are being held without bail on suspicion of negligent homicide. 

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