Residents walk through mud inside their home, following flooding brought by Super Typhoon Ragasa in Hualien, Taiwan, September 25, 2025. REUTERS
TAIPEI, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s fire department on Thursday revised down to 14 the death toll from a typhoon this week on its remote east coast, but said 33 people were still unaccounted for.
The deaths happened after Super Typhoon Ragasa’s outer bands brought heavy rain to Taiwan’s Hualien county, causing a barrier lake in the mountains to overflow and unleash a wall of water onto the small town of Guangfu.
It put the new number of missing at 33, a figure that had hit 152 on Wednesday, as the government searches for people reported out of contact.
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sam Holmes
