Photos: Buried Alive - Hundreds trapped as mudslide obliterates villages in Taiwan


	Photos: Buried Alive - Hundreds trapped as mudslide obliterates villages in Taiwan

clip-on-tie

8-12-2009 5:32 AM

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Others were not as fortunate, but rescuers are thankful after about 700 people from the remote mountains of southern Taiwan were found alive overnight after it was feared they may have been buried by landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot.

The survivors from four villages made it to higher ground before walls of mud and rock submerged their homes, said Hu Jui-chou, an army official involved in the rescue effort.

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8-12-2009 7:26 AM

celestialdancer

Clipon I love the pic of the ducks swimming in that flooded room... Sooooo unexpected....

8-12-2009 8:08 AM

shaor

May God help those poor souls! Such a terrible thing to happen.

8-12-2009 12:36 PM

kkcapricorn

What atragedy

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<IMG width="634" height="424" class="blkBorder" alt="Damaged buildings are seen after Typhoon Morakot swept Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan today" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/12/article-1205758-0607774B000005DC-32_634x424.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><IMG width="634" height="423" class="blkBorder" alt="Taiwanese people run out of a rescue helicopter after fleeing from the flooded village of Namaxia following Typhoon Morakot today" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/12/article-1205758-0608F0E6000005DC-484_634x423.jpg" />
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<IMG width="634" height="434" class="blkBorder" alt="A farmer keeps ducks in the submerged kitchen in the flooded Pingyao town in east China's Zhejiang province yesterday. China says over 11 million people are affected by the disasters brought by Typhoon Morakot " src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/12/article-1205758-0608AAAF000005DC-26_634x434.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><IMG width="634" height="422" class="blkBorder" alt="A man walks along the bank of a river filled with wood and debris washed down by Typhoon Morakot in Chishen, Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan, today" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/12/article-1205758-0609062A000005DC-783_634x422.jpg" />
<P class="imageCaption">A man walks along the bank of a river filled with wood and debris washed down by Typhoon Morakot </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><FONT>Yesterday soldiers saved around 130 people trapped in one massive landslide.<BR /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><P><FONT>But least 400 more were feared dead and the bid to save those buried by the sludge has already cost the lives of six helicopter crew after they crashed into a mountain.</FONT></P><DIV class="clear"> </DIV>
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<P class="imageCaption">A massive landslide</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><A class="lightboxPopupLink" rel="Flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot have also affected China. Here, people get a ride on a bulldozer driving through a flooded area in Cangnan county, in east China's Zhejiang province, yesterday" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0605965E000005DC-627_634x383_popup.jpg"><IMG width="634" height="383" class="blkBorder" alt="Flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot have also affected China. Here, people get a ride on a bulldozer driving through a flooded area in Cangnan county, in east China's Zhejiang province, yesterday" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0605965E000005DC-627_634x383.jpg" />
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<P class="imageCaption">Flooding and landslides</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><A class="lightboxPopupLink" rel="Dedly: Typhoon Morakot is shown passing directly over Taiwan towards China" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0605BAAC000005DC-769_634x770_popup.jpg"><IMG width="634" height="770" class="blkBorder" alt="Typhoon Morakot is shown passing directly over Taiwan towards China" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0605BAAC000005DC-769_634x770.jpg" />
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<IMG width="634" height="406" class="blkBorder" alt="Location: The island state of Taiwan, east of China" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-06011F68000005DC-872_634x406.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205758/Typhoon-Morokot-Miracle-700-people-safe-landslides-obliterate-villages-Taiwan-typhoon.html"><A class="lightboxPopupLink" rel="Trapped: A soldier searches for victims buried wood carried by the mudslide" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0604A1DA000005DC-869_634x472_popup.jpg"><IMG width="634" height="472" class="blkBorder" alt=" soldier searches for victims buried wood carried by the mudslide" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0604A1DA000005DC-869_634x472.jpg" />
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<IMG width="634" height="420" class="blkBorder" alt="Two men float a dog and supplies through flooded streets of Pingtung county, southern Taiwan, yesterday" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/11/article-1205758-0603F951000005DC-134_634x420.jpg" /></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9F689453-D1A4-4DDD-B555-999A4546279A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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