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27 missing after village landslide
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TWENTY-SEVEN people are missing after a landslide swept a village in east China’s Zhejiang Province, the provincial government said.
The landslide occurred around 5pm yesterday in Sucun village in Suichang County, following heavy rain brought by Typhoon Megi.
Several houses were destroyed and the structures swept away.
Two women who were pulled out of the debris by rescuers are said to be in a stable condition.
More than 400 rescuers are at the scene and Zhejiang Vice Governor Sun Jingmiao is leading rescue operations.
More than 18,000 people had been relocated because of the storm.
Megi made landfall on China’s mainland early yesterday, battering the east coast with heavy rain and high winds and killing at least one person, after leaving four dead and a trail of destruction in Taiwan.
More than 500 people had been injured when the storm raked across the island, including eight Japanese tourists whose bus was blown over. One remains in a critical condition.
Megi hit the mainland with winds of around 120 kilometers an hour, dropping more than 300 millimeters of rain in several areas, according to Xinhua news agency.
Local media reports from the coastal province of Fujian said one man died after a flash flood tore through his home.
Images on China Central Television showed parked cars on the streets of the coastal city of Xiamen submerged up to their windshields in floodwaters.
Schools were shut across the province and train services canceled, Xinhua reported.
Hundreds of flights to and from the province were canceled or rescheduled.
Xiamen Air was worst hit, with a total of 288 flights, both international and domestic, affected.
Shanghai Railway Bureau said it had canceled the departure of 91 train services yesterday while five services due to run today will also be suspended.
Most of the affected services were due to run through Fujian.
In Taiwan, schools and offices were shut for a second day after Megi left roads blocked by landslides and many homes flooded.
The four deaths on the island included a man killed by falling scaffolding and a 17-year-old boy who drowned when his boat capsized.
Around 4,300 people remained in temporary shelters with more than 14,800 evacuated from their homes, according to Taiwan’s emergency operation center.
At its peak, Megi knocked out power for close to 3.8 million households, the second worst on record after the outage caused by Typhoon Soudelor in August last year.
A million households were still without power yesterday.
“Fallen trees and signboards brought down many power lines and electrical poles, leading to severe power outages across the island,” Taiwan Power Company said.
Authorities were rushing to clear blocked roads, including those leading to mountainous villages in the popular hot springs town of Wulai.
One of the areas worst hit by Soudelor, it had evacuated 200 residents ahead of the storm.
“The river swelled and flooded the old street, damaging basements of some homes,” said Wulai spokesman Shen Hui-kang.
Mountainous areas across Taiwan have been lashed by torrential rain, with some parts of northeast Yilan County getting 1.3 meters since Monday.
Megi hit as parts of the island were still recovering from Typhoon Meranti earlier this month, the strongest storm on the island for 21 years.
Meranti, which left one person dead in Taiwan before killing another 28 as it moved to eastern China, was closely followed by the smaller Typhoon Malakas.
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