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Taiwan: Typhoon: 2001/07/30 Country Information on DRR

Period 2001/07/30
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
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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Report/Articles

CNN News 2001/07/31
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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.


(Japanese Page)

CNN News 2001/07/30
(Japanese Page)

CNN News 2001/08/01
(Japanese Page)