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Typhoons bring death, havoc to East Asia

Death toll rises to 70

AFP, Chishan
Typhoons pummelling East Asia have killed at least 70 people, with rescuers in Taiwan battling to find survivors of a mudslide that may have buried about 100 villagers, officials said yesterday.
A total of 50 people were confirmed dead in Taiwan and 58 were listed as missing, not counting the mudslide victims, after Typhoon Morakot unleashed the island's worst flooding in half a century over the weekend.
At least 20 were killed as landslides and flooding left a trail of destruction in China and lapan, where officials feared more damage after a powerful earthquake loosened rain-soaked ground southwest ofTokyo.
A helicopter carrying three rescue personnel involved in typhoon relief efforts crashed in heavy fog in southern Taiwan, an official said, with-out giving details of casualties.
The Taiwanese government's National Eire Agency said about 100 people may have been buried alive" In the remote village of Hslaoiln, which could only be reached by helicopter with all road access to the mountainous area severed.
Rescuers said they had airlifted roughly 500 people to safety in southern Taiwan, including about 70 from lisiaolin.
One Hsiaolin survivor, Wong Ruei-chi, said he had lost 10 relatives in the mudslide.
"I’ve lived in the village for 46 years and I had seen strong winds and rain, but I've never seen anything as terrible as this," he told the Apple Daily newspaper.
Morakot lashed Taiwan with three metres (118 inches) of rain over the weekend, submerging entire streets and bringing down bridges, said
the fire agency.
Rescue missions were in full swing with authorities rushing out supplies by helicopter to cut-off areas in the centre and south of the Island.
In Pingtung county in southern Taiwan, thousands of people remained trapped in three coastal townships without electricity or drinking water.
T he Apple Daily said one man in a flooded Pingtung town had single-handedly rescued about 100 people with a bamboo raft over the past two days.
In eastern China, a massive landslide triggered by torrential rain from Typhoon Morakot toppled seven older houses in one town, killing two people and injuring four, firefighters and residents said.
The four-storey buildings collapsed around 10:00 pm Monday night in the town of Pengxi in the coastal province ofZhejiang.