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Taiwan:Typhoon:2001/07/30
Duration2001/07/30 Typhoon Toraji has become the most devastating of eight typhoons to hit Taiwan this year having killed at least 61 people and possibly as many as 200, in raging floodwaters and mudslides.
Country or DistrictTaiwan
NameTyphoon

Headline(Source, Date)
Personal Injury Material Damage Others
Dead:69people
injured:34people
displaced:140people

 43 places boulder flow
109 road cutting-into-pieces by falling stone and mudslede
bridges collapse

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  • CNN News 2001/07/31
    (Japanese Page)
  • Mainithi news 2001/08/01
    69people dead, 34 injured and 140 displaced.
  • MSN　ｎews（Japanese)
    (Japanese Page)
  • CNN
    Typhoon Toraji has become the most devastating of eight typhoons to hit Taiwan this year having killed at least 61 people and possibly as many as 200, in raging floodwaters and mudslides
  • Reuters
    Taiwan rescue workers searched collapsed homes, temples, river banks and mountainsides on Tuesday for survivors of a typhoon which could be the deadliest storm in nearly four decades.

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  • CNN News 2001/07/30
    (Japanese Page)
  • CNN News 2001/08/01
    (Japanese Page)
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