TAINAN — Rescuers pulled two more survivors from the rubble of a collapsed building in Taiwan on Monday more than 48 hours after a deadly earthquake struck, but the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned the death toll was likely to exceed 100.The death toll from the quake rose to 37, with more than 100 people still missing.The quake struck at about 8pm GMT on Friday at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, with almost all the dead found in the toppled Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building in Tainan.Rescue efforts are focused on the wreckage of the 17-storey building, where 117 people are listed as missing and are suspected to be buried deep under the rubble.Wang Ting-yu, a legislator who represents the area, told reporters that a woman, identified as Tsao Wei-ling, was found lying under her dead husband. Their two-year-old son, who was also killed, was found lying nearby.Another survivor, a man named Li Tsung-tian, was pulled out later on Monday, with Taiwan television statio...
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