Taipei, Taiwan - Typhoon Saola (TYPHOON GENER SA PILIPINAS) pounded the nation with fierce winds and torrential rain yesterday, leaving SIX people dead, two missing and 16 injured.
According to information from the Central Emergency Operation Center, as of press time, one man in New Taipei City’s Sansia Township was buried in a mudslide, the 50-year-old director of New Taipei City’s Zuntou Police Station, Wang Ming-hsiang, died of a heart attack while patroling landslide-prone areas; a motorcyclist was killed after he crashed into a toppled tree in Chiayi County; and a couple were buried by mudslides on their farm in Yilan, the center said.
In Taipei, more than 700 people living in old communities or hillsides were evacuated due to flooding and landslides that caused damage in Wenshan, Beitou and Shilin districts.
Severe flooding was also reported in Yilan County, New Taipei City and Taoyuan County. Approximately 6,700 households in New Taipei City, Hsinchu, Nantou, Changhua and Yilan were left without water.
The Ministry of National Defense, which had ordered more than 45,000 soldiers to be on stand-by, mobilized amphibious vehicles to rescue residents trapped in chest-deep water in Yilan County. Television news footage showed residents in Yilan’s Wujie Township wading through the floodwater, which at one point rose to their chests.
The Central Emergency Operation Center estimated that more than 6,000 residents in 14 cities and counties were evacuated, 2,800 of whom stayed in temporary shelters. Electricity to more than 177,000 households nationwide was cut at one point.
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