In Honkong, meteorologists issued the highest warning stage due to strong winds. There are also 18 injured and 30 missing in Taiwan after the dams are broken.
Supertajfun Ragasa hit Hong Kong on Wednesday morning. The rupture of the water dam in Taiwan has already required at least 14 victims at night, TASR writes AFP and Reuters.
The Hong Kong Meteorological Service on Wednesday announced the highest warning stage and announced that the wind could reach speeds of up to 118 kilometers per hour.
The Taiwanese authorities before 07.00 local time (01.00 CEST) as a result of the rupture of the dams in the Chua-Lien district in the east of the country confirmed 14 dead and 18 injured. Another at least 30 people are missing.
The barrier lake was created after landslides after previous heavy rains on the sparsely populated east of Taiwan, on Tuesday afternoon its shores broke and spilled into the city of Kuang-Fu. Taiwan recorded approximately 70 centimeters of rainfall as a result of a typhoon in the east of the country. According to the local government, approximately 60 percent of the 8,500 city residents decided to “vertical evacuation” and hid themselves on the upper floors of their houses.
