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Typhoon's death toll at 35; nearly 1 million evacuated


Associated Press
August 27, 2004


SHANGHAI, China -- The death toll from Typhoon Aere climbed to 35 on
Thursday after a mudslide killed 15 villagers in Taiwan, while nearly
a million people were evacuated as the storm thrashed mainland China.

Aere came ashore on the mainland late Wednesday after battering
northern Taiwan, where up to 5 feet of rain fell in the past 21/2 days
in some areas.

Officials in Taiwan said the mudslide in a remote northern mountain
village buried all the homes in 10 seconds, killing 15. The island's
death toll rose to 30 after officials reported a man died when
floodwaters washed away his riverside home in central Taiwan.

Five other people were reported dead in the Philippines.

Apart from a man reported missing in eastern China, no casualties were
reported on the mainland. It was the second-strongest storm to hit
China this season after Typhoon Rananim, which killed 164 people and
devastated the southern Chinese coast.

Authorities credited the minimal casualties from this week's storm to
the evacuation of 930,000 people from low-lying and coastal areas.
More than 40,000 fishing boats were called back to port, and flights
in the region were canceled, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

It cited local officials saying that while destructive, the storm also
had helped ease severe drought in the area.

The typhoon's greatest destruction was in Taiwan. Rescuers struggled
Thursday to reach the isolated village in the north after the
landslide swept over 24 homes, an official said.

The storm also caused heavy rains that swamped parts of the Philippine
capital, Manila, where at least five people drowned and three were
missing.