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Taiwan: Typhoon: 2001/07/30
GLIDE: ST-2001-000405-TWN
Period | 2001/07/30 |
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Country or District | Taiwan |
Event Type | Typhoon |
Outline | Typhoon Toraji has become the most devastating of eight typhoons to hit Taiwan this year having killed at least 61 people and possibly as many as 200, in raging floodwaters and mudslides. |
Summary | ||
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Human Impact | Physical Impact | Others |
Dead:69people injured:34people displaced:140people |
43 places boulder flow 109 road cutting-into-pieces by falling stone and mudslede bridges collapse |
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CNN News 2001/07/31
(Japanese Page)
Mainithi news 2001/08/01
69people dead, 34 injured and 140 displaced.
MSN news(Japanese)
(Japanese Page)
CNN
Typhoon Toraji has become the most devastating of eight typhoons to hit Taiwan this year having killed at least 61 people and possibly as many as 200, in raging floodwaters and mudslides
Reuters
Taiwan rescue workers searched collapsed homes, temples, river banks and mountainsides on Tuesday for survivors of a typhoon which could be the deadliest storm in nearly four decades.
CNN News 2001/07/30
(Japanese Page)
CNN News 2001/08/01
(Japanese Page)