BLACKOUT: Taipower said that it had deployed 800 workers to restore electricity to 1,333 homes in Taoyuan and New Taipei City that had lost power due to the storm
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 10, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Typhoon Lekima, which sideswiped northern Taiwan from late Thursday through early yesterday, and a
Pedestrians struggle against strong winds and rain in Taipei yesterday morning as Typhoon Lekima affected northern Taiwan.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
According to a situation report released by the center at 7pm yesterday, one of the casualties was a 64-year-old man who on Thursday fell to his death from a tree in Taipei while attempting to trim branches as a precautionary measure against the typhoon.
The other fatality was a woman in her 60s who was crushed by a fallen clothes rack, hangers and clothes at her house in New Taipei City when a magnitude 6 earthquake struck northeastern Taiwan, the report said.
An initial investigation found that she might have been knocked unconscious after being hit by the metal rack and hangers, and then suffocated under more than 100kg of clothes that smothered her face, it said. [FULL STORY]
