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Taiwan: Flood: 2004/09/12 Country Information on DRR

GLIDE:  FL-2004-000096-TWN

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Period 2004/09/12
Country or District Taiwan
Event Type Flood
Outline At least seven people are feared dead in Taiwan after floods and a landslide triggered by a storm that is dumping torrential rain across the island's north, officials said on Sunday.
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others

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Reuters Alertnet 2004/09/12
Rock and earth loosened by five days of downpours swept away three houses and buried a family of four, including a 12-year-old boy, in mountainous Hsinchu county, the same region that had been devastated by Typhoon Aere last month.

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Taipeitimes 2004/09/12
Three cars immersed in water next to the No. 5 Floodgate on Taipei's Fuyuan Street beside the Keelung River are barely visible yesterday after a night of torrential rain. The sign on the left of the picture reads "No swimming."