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Friday July 18, 12:07 PMTropical storm floods southern TaiwanTropical storm Kalmaegi lashed southern Taiwan with torrential rains Friday, triggering flash floods and landslides. Local television reported that at least one person was killed. Sanlih Television footage showed water running down a mountain road, flooding a large area of Kaohsiung county in southern Taiwan. The report said a woman was pulled from a house buried in a landslide, but one of her two children was killed during the rescue. Officials said that water was cut off from more than 650,000 households because of flooding in Tainan county, also in southern Taiwan. After being rescued from their home, a man and a woman were missing after a police motorboat overturned in flooding waters in Taichung county in central Taiwan, CTI Cable Station reported. Television also showed firefighters using ladders to rescue several people trapped in a flooded house in coastal Yunlin county. The storm started lashing Taiwan late Thursday. It headed away from Taiwan and toward southern China early Friday, packing winds of 52 mph, the Central Weather Bureau said. In the Philippines, the government disaster agency reported that two people died earlier this week as the storm pounded the country's northern corner with rains and strong winds. |
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