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    12 June 2012| last updated at 12:40PM

    Four dead in Taiwan mudslides



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    TAIPEI: At least four people died and one was injured when mudslides triggered by torrential rains hit two areas in central Taiwan, rescue officials said Tuesday.

    Schools were suspended in several large cities, as Taiwan faced the most  serious flooding since Typhoon Morakot lashed the island in 2009, triggering  massive mudslides that killed more than 600 people.

     
    Two were killed and one was wounded when a makeshift shelter in a  mountainous area of Nantou county was buried by mudslides, said the national  fire agency, adding downpours also damaged roads and disrupted electricity.
     
    Two men who worked for the forestry bureau in Taichung city were rushed to  a clinic Monday with severe injuries caused when a mudslide crushed their  office, but despite efforts to save them they died later in the day, the agency  said.
     
    In northern Taoyuan county, 20,000 chickens were drowned when a farm was  submerged by a flash flood, officials said.
     
    Massive flooding was reported across the island since late Monday, with  more than 700 millimetres of rain (27 inches) in some areas while Taiwan’s  central weather bureau warned of more heavy rains this week.
     
    As of mid-morning Tuesday, Taipei and three other large cities had  suspended classes and work in government offices. -- AFP
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