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Powerful typhoon strikes Taiwan
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 28 - 07 - 2008


A powerful typhoon lashed Taiwan
with strong winds and heavy rains Monday, disrupting air traffic and triggering landslides and floods that killed at least one man in the southeastern part of the island, the Associated Press reported.
Typhoon Fung Wong hit Taiwan just before dawn, packing
winds of 105 miles (167 kilometers) per hour. It left the
island, heading for the Chinese mainland, about nine hours
later.
Television images showed rescue personnel wading through
waist-deep waters to extricate people from their homes in
Hualien in eastern Taiwan, where the typhoon made landfall.
A man drowned when he slipped into a flooded rice paddy in
Taitung County in southeast Taiwan, the disaster relief
center said.
Authorities evacuated more than 1,000 isolated villagers
and barred traffic at low lying, vulnerable bridges, the
center said. They provided 300 pumping machines to move
water out of flooded areas, it added.
The city's domestic airport was shut down, but at the
international airport in suburban Taoyuan county some
long-haul and regional flights using larger aircraft were
still taking off and landing normally, according to the
Taoyuan airport's Web site.
The state-run Taiwan Power company said more than 43,000
homes had lost power around the island and several roads
were blocked by landslides.
The storm dumped more than 26 inches (66 centimeters) of
rain in Hualien. It is expected to make landfall on the
southeastern Chinese coast early Tuesday, the Central
Weather Bureau said.
Fung Wong hit Taiwan just a week after tropical storm
Kalmaegi killed 19 people and left six others missing on
the island.


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