Taipei - Typhoon Kalmaegi caused severe destruction in Taiwan, leaving at least five people dead and several missing as it moved towards China on Friday. An army officer slipped into a ditch and died while inspecting the barracks in Taichung county, press reports said. In Tainan County, a boy and a girl were buried alive under a collapsed house, while a couple drowned when they fell from a rescue boat into a flooded river. The death toll was expected to rise because several people swept away by flood water were still listed as missing. President Ma Ying-jeou cut short his physical checkup at a Taipei hospital to visit the disaster centre in Hsintien, near Taipei, to coordinate rescue efforts and assess typhoon-caused damages. According to the Council of Agriculture, Typhoon Kalmaegi caused losses of 100 million dollars (3.3...
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