400 missing in mudslide.A MUDSLIDE touched off by a deadly typhoon typhoon: see hurricane. buried a remote mountain village in Taiwan, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for An inclusive term (not a casualty status) applicable to personnel whose person or remains are not recovered or otherwise accounted for following hostile action. Commonly used when referring to personnel who are killed in action and whose bodies are not recovered. , while a massive landslide in China toppled seven apartment buildings, an official said today. Typhoon Morakot slammed Taiwan over the weekend with as much as 80 inches of rain before crossing the 112-milewide Taiwan Strait Taiwan Strait, Chinese Taiwan haixia, arm of the Pacific Ocean, between China's Fujian coast and Taiwan, linking the East and South China seas. It contains the Pescadores. It is also called the Formosa Strait. and hitting China. The storm inflicted the worst flooding the island has seen in at least a halfcentury, submerging large areas of farmland in chocolate-brown muck and swamping city streets. Taiwanese authorities put the confirmed death toll in Taiwan at 38, but that seemed certain to rise. The country's Cabinet set aside 600 million US dollars in emergency funds to help with relief work and to compensate victims' families. A disaster appeared to be unfolding at the isolated southern village of Shiao Lin, hit by a mudslide on Sunday at about 6am local time. Morakot weakened to a tropical storm early on Monday but it has still been lashing south-eastern China with heavy rain. CAPTION(S): Deadly: A six-storey hotel in Chihpen, Taiwan collapses and plunges into a river after floodwaters eroded its base. |
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