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Cooking-oil cans found in walls of high-rise building collapsed in Taiwan quake (Original Post) jakeXT Feb 2016 OP
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Response to jakeXT (Original post)

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
2. Yowzer
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 07:55 AM
Feb 2016

The can story made the news here in Japan

16階建てビルの倒壊によって露出したコンクリートの柱などの中に、複数のサラダ油や塗料の缶が埋め込まれているのが見つかった。台湾内政部(内政省)は、手抜き工事の可能性があるかどうか調査する方針だ

"It was found that concrete pillars, etc., that were exposed when the 16-story building collapsed, had been stuffed with cooking oil and paint cans. The Taiwan Interior Ministry is planning to examine whether or not there was corner-cutting during the construction."

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/20160206-OYT1T50107.html

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