Over 700 villagers feared dead
China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-12 07:46
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Rescuers help evacuate people from a flooded village in Chiayi county in southern Taiwan yesterday. Helicopters dropped emergency crews into the village to search for victims of a mudslide that may have buried several hundred people after Typhoon Morakot hit the island. Reuters |
More than 700 people are trapped, possibly dead, in two southern Taiwan villages engulfed by mudslides after Typhoon Morakot swamped the island, official sources said yesterday.
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