Hundreds in village may be trapped

TAIPEI: Rescuers continued their search well into the night yesterday at a village situated in the mountains of southern Kaohsiung, where it was feared that nearly 1,000 villagers may be trapped or buried by a landslide triggered by Typhoon Morakot.

"We have so far found 43 people and airlifted 32 of them from Hsiaolin village," said Huang Chi-min, director of a local emergency services agency.

Huang said a rescue unit dispatched a helicopter to search for survivors after reports that the village, located in the southern county of Kaohsiung, was buried in a landslide.