13 Killed By China Landslides Triggered By Typhoon Megi

Ada Carr
Published: October 1,2016

After hitting Taiwan with deadly winds and flooding, Typhoon Megi moved west into China, where heavy rainfall triggered a pair of mudslides that have left at least 13 people dead and 20 more missing.
Saturday officials in Sucun village confirmed eight deaths from a landslide with 19 people still missing. A second landslide in Wencheng county killed five and left one person missing.
The storm was also responsible for several collapsed structures in the Chinese town of Quanzhou, where one person was killed, the China News Service said.
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Chinese rescuers search at the site of the landslide in Sucun village, Beijie town, Suichang county, Lishui city, east China's Zhejiang province, Sept. 29, 2016.
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More than 120,000 fishermen were evacuated in Fujian province alone, CCTV said. One person was killed by the storm in China.
Seven deaths were confirmed in Taiwan after officials told Focus Taiwan that three bodies were recovered in the aftermath of a landslide in Kaohsiung. The victims were an 86-year-old man, his 82-year-old wife and their 50-year-old son, the report added.
Of the other four deaths, three were from falls and one was blamed on a truck crash, Taiwan Central Emergency Operations Center spokesman Lee Wei-sen told the AP.
More than 600 people were injured – many of which were caused by flying debris – during the storm, the AP reported. Among those hurt were eight Japanese tourists who were inside a bus that overturned, the report added. One of those tourists remains in critical condition, according to the Straits Times.
Three state utility workers were injured when their truck tumbled into a valley while they were trying to restore power in a mountainous area.
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In the wake of the typhoon, almost 4 million Taiwanese homes and businesses lost power, Focus Taiwan also said.

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At Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport, tropical-force sustained winds were observed for upwards of 14 consecutive hours during the storm, with the peak wind gust clocked at 99 mph, according to weather.com meteorologist Jon Erdman.
Winds knocked down a 635-ton crane at a harbor in the eastern area of Hualien, crushing a nearby building. No injuries were reported from the incident.
The island's eastern coast was still recovering from damage caused by Super Typhoon Meranti earlier this month, followed by Typhoon Malakas.