Typhoon Soudelor wreaks havoc in Taiwan

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Taiwan has been battered by a typhoon that has brought strong winds and torrential rain to the island nation. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds of thousands are without electricity.

Typhoon Soudelor wreaks havoc in Taiwan
08.08.2015

Taiwan has been battered by a typhoon that has brought strong winds and torrential rain to the island nation. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds of thousands are without electricity.
Taifun Soudelor in Taiwan

Taiwan's Central News Agency reported Saturday that an eight-year-old girl and her mother had become Typhoon Soudelor's first victims when they were swept out to sea from a beach after it made landfall in the country's east-coast counties of Yiland and Hualien.

In the following hours, Soudelor continued to move west across Taiwan, packing gusts of up to 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles per hour), uprooting trees, and knocking down wind turbines. The rains also triggered mudslides in a remote village in the northern region of Taoyuan.

"Flash mudslides surged into the village. About 10 of the homes were half buried but people were evacuated last night and are in safe shelters," a spokesman for Taoyuan fire brigade told the AFP news agency.