Death Toll at 66 in Wake of Typhoon
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Thousands of soldiers and rescue workers began cleaning up Taipei’s mud-caked and waterlogged streets after Typhoon Nari dumped record amounts of rain on Taiwan and killed at least 66 people.
At least 23 people were missing and 158 injured after Nari turned roads in the capital into torrents of water that flowed past second-story windows in Taipei’s worst flooding.
The victims drowned, were buried under landslides or electrocuted by downed power lines in the north of the island, the government’s disaster response center said.
Taipei’s weather service said the city was hit with record rainfall of 17 inches in a single day.
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