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Thirteenth Megi (Typhoon) death confirmed - Taiwan
The Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC) yesterday confirmed the 13th death from Typhoon Megi, which triggered mudslides that destroyed large sections of the Suhua Highway in Yilan County last week, and confirmed that 25 people remained unaccounted for.
The victim was a woman whom relatives identified as a teacher at a school for handicapped children. The discovery was made at section 112.8km of the highway.
Rescue teams from across the country continued their search for missing people who were traveling on the highway when severe mudslides and rockslides hit the section they were on.
Among the missing was a 21-member tour group that included 19 Chinese, their Taiwanese guide, Tseng Ching-hua (曾慶華), and Taiwanese driver, Kuo Ming-lin (郭銘麟). The bus was likely traveling on the highway when heavy rain and rockslides caused a section to collapse.
Tsai Chih-ming (蔡智明), a Taiwanese driver, and Tian Yuan (田園), a Chinese tour group leader from another bus belonging to Hong Tai Tour Agency (弘泰旅行社), were also missing. Parts of their tour bus were found buried beneath debris, but there were no signs of the driver and the tour guide, raising hopes that they managed to escape as the vehicle tumbled into the valley.
The 19 tourists from China on board the second bus made it out just before the bus fell into the valley.
Approached by media, four injured Chinese tourists from the Hong Tai Tour Agency bus told reporters that Tsai and Tian took good care of them while they were trapped inside the bus.
“They [Tsai and Tian] were also hungry, but they gave the food to us,” one of the hospitalized tourists said.
Yang Changfu (楊長福), another hospitalized tourist, said: “Tsai and Tian could not get out of the bus in time because they let us go first.”
He said they tried to pull Tsai and Tian out of the bus before it fell off the cliff, but could not manage it.
Rescuers had also yet to locate three individuals who were traveling in two cars. The CEOC said the cars were relatively intact, but the drivers and passengers were missing. |
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