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Typhoon Morakot Ba iters Taiwan

1000 missing found alive in the island

Agencies, cishan
Rescuers have found nearly 1,000 people alive in (he area around three remote villages devastated by typhoon Morakot, which pommeled the island over the weekend. Taiwan’s military said yesterday.
Most ol the survivors wen* found Riesday, but relief operations spokesman Major General Hu jui-chou said a few dozen more were spotted Wednesday in Shiao Lin, the tiny community destroyed by a catastrophic mudslide early Sunday morning.
Hu told reporters 500 survivors had been found in Min Tzu, 200 from Chin He. and 270 from Shiao Un.
Army helicopters were ferrying survivors to safety in Cishan, the hardscrabble town in the southern county of Kaohsiung that is serving as a focal point for relief operations.
However, heavy rains were wreaking havoc with rescue operations and by early afternoon only a few dozen flights had arrived at the makeshift landing zone on the ground of Cishan Junior High School. That compared to more than 100 on Tuesday.
Morakot, which means ’’emerald" in the Thai language, struck the Philippines, Taiwan and China and left at least 93 people dead, most of them in Taiwan. It dumped as much as 80 inches (two meters) of rain on the island before moving on to China, where authorities evacuated 1.5 million people and some 10,000 homes were destroyed.
A major concent for relief officials
remained Shiao Lin, cut oil from (he otKside world since Sunday's mudslides.
Video (aken by IV station PITY showed the village buried in tons of mud and rubbles, with only two of its structures left standing. The only sign of life in the village, the ETTV video showed, was a sodden cat hiding in a crack under the nibble.
Luo Shun-chi. 36, who escaped from Shiao Lin shortly after Sunday's mudslide, told The Associated Press that he did not know how many of his fellow villagers remained alive.
He said that between 500 and 600 people were in Shiao Lin at the time of the disaster - far fewer than the 1,300 people listed in Taiwan's population registry.
Taiwan's National Eire Agency has said 100 people were under the mud in Shiao Un, but didn't offer any evidence to back up that claim.
Luo said that whatever the Shiao Lin death toll, he was never going back.
"The place is finished," he said. "There is no way I could return."
The official death toll from Morakot stands at 63 in Taiwan, while authorities say another 61 are missing. That figure is mostly people killed from flooding and does not include residents of Shiao Un and its surroundings.
Outside of Taiwan, Morakot also claimed 22 lives in the Philippines. After pummeling Taiwan, Morakot slammed into China's Fujian province, bringing heavy rain and winds of 119 kilometres per hour, according to the China Meteorological Administration.