Rescue and relief efforts continued on Friday (Sept 26) in Taiwan after Super Typhoon Ragasa flooded a lake above a small town on its remote east coast.
00:00Rescue and relief efforts continued on Friday in Taiwan after Super Typhoon Ragasa flooded a lake above a small town on its remote east coast.
00:11Ragasa passed through the Philippines earlier this week before traveling west towards Hong Kong and southern China.
00:18Its outer bands brought heavy rains to Taiwan's Hualien County.
00:23The heavy rains in Hualien caused a so-called barrier lake in the mountains to overflow on Tuesday and release a thick sludge of water and mud on the town of Guangfu,
00:34where rescuers on Friday waited as they looked for the missing.
00:38While the floodwaters have receded, the dark gray mud continues to blanket large parts of the area, creating problems for residents and rescuers alike.
00:47At least 14 people have been killed and 11 were missing, prompting questions about evacuation orders that were potentially infeasible for the elderly to follow.
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