Overview
- Taiwan authorities on Sept. 25 reported 14 fatalities and reduced the number of uncontacted people to 22 after correcting earlier duplicate entries.
- Officials say 633 people have been rescued as firefighters and the military continue searches and residents clear thick mud from homes and roads.
- The deluge followed overflow and breach of a mountain barrier lake that had been under watch since it formed after a July landslide.
- Local reporting indicates the lake’s failure released about 60 million of roughly 91 million tons of stored water downstream.
- Taiwan’s Central News Agency reports many victims were elderly and found on first floors of flooded buildings.