Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/29
By: Chang Che-fon and Christie Chen

Kaohsiung, Sept. 29 (CNA) Rescue workers on Thursday found the bodies of three people who went missing following a mudslide in Kaohsiung during Typhoon Megi, bringing the typhoon death toll to seven.

The bodies of 86-year-old Shih Fu-yin (施福寅), his 82-year-old wife Shih Wu-luan (施吳鸞) and their 50-year-old son Shih Chia-li (施家禮) were found in a room on the first floor of their home in Kaohsiung’s Yanchao District, according to the Kaohsiung City Fire Bureau.

Wang Tsung-chan (王宗展), captain of the fire bureau’s Fourth Corps, said all three bodies were found in Shih Wu-luan’s room, meaning that Shih’s husband and son may have been trying to help her escape when the mudslide tore through their home and engulfed them.

The first floor of the two-story house was almost completely covered in rocks and mud. Backhoes were dispatched to the site on Wednesday, after the authorities received reports that the three might have been buried by the mudslide.     [FULL  STORY]