Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/24
By: Chu Wei-tze and S.C. Chang
Taipei, Aug. 24 (CNA) At least one person has died and 11 people have been injured by
Photo courtesy of the military
torrential rain that battered southern Taiwan Thursday and Friday and flooded 1,105 locations, according to tallies by the Central Emergency Operation Center late Friday.
The Central Weather Bureau raised its estimate of total rainfall to 1,100 millimeters for Tainan, Kaohsiung and other hard-hit areas, where a total of 5,678 people were evacuated to safe places.
As of 6 p.m. Friday, 802 locations were still flooded and estimates of agricultural losses had risen to NT$53.48 million (US$1.74 million), the center reported.
The Ministry of Education gave an estimated NT$18.06 million in damage to 157 schools around the country caused by the heavy rain. [FULL STORY]