Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-15
By: Wendy Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Super typhoon Meranti which struck Taiwan Tuesday has left one person dead, 44 injured, and nearly one million households without power, the Central Disaster Emergency Operation Center (CDEOC) said Thursday.

As of 8 a.m. Thursday, over 990,000 households had reported power cuts. While electricity has been restored to more than 580,000 households, some 400,000 households are still cut off from power, according to the latest CDEOC report.

More than 720,000 households also suffered water outages, the CDEOC said.

The super typhoon has battered southern and southeastern Taiwan with damaging winds and torrential rainfall. Hengchun Township in Pingtung County was hardest hit by the storm with record-breaking winds of up to 52 meters per second, the strongest wind gust in 120 years.     [FULL  STORY]