15:01 Four passengers confirmed from mainland

Four passengers from the mainland were confirmed on the crashed plane.

Yan Chunwei, an employee of China Telecom's Xiamen branch, and his son have been reportedly injured in the crash. Yan's wife escaped injuries.

Xiamen Power Supply Bureau said its employee Huang Liping is now under emergency treatment while Huang Yifei and Hua Li are not on the survivors' list. 

Plane clipped a taxi as it descended into river. [Photo/TVBS]

14:48 Joint emergency response operation launched across the Straits

The State Council Taiwan Affairs Office and the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) launched a joint emergency response operation and are being kept up to date by Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council and the Straits Exchange Foundation.

They extended condolences to the victims as well as other passengers on board and urged those on the ground to do as much as they could to rescue the aircraft's passengers and crew

Police guide traffic on a road near the crash site. [Photo/IC]

14:15 12 killed, 30 missing, 31 mainland passengers on board

The death toll has risen to 10, with 30 reportedly missing, Taiwan-based central news agency reported.

The 31 Chinese mainland passengers were on organized trips, managed by two travel agencies from Xiamen City in the southeast mainland province of Fujian, the Taiwan tourism authority confirmed.