Police have confirmed bones found in the mountains of Hualien County are a DNA match for a hiker who went missing when a 7.2 earthquake hit the area last year. The Australian-Singaporean man was with his wife at the time, and there is still no trace of her remains.
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00:00Police have identified the remains of a Singaporean-Australian man who went missing during last year's 7.2
00:06magnitude earthquake in Hualien.
00:09The man and his wife had been hiking along a trail in Taroko National Park at the time
00:14of the quake.
00:15A police search of the landslide-hit trail didn't turn up any sign of the couple, but
00:20a nearby farmer found bones on January 11th that have since proved a DNA match.
00:26The Hualien District Court is notifying relatives, though there is still no sign of the late
00:31man's wife.