Drone footage showed the scale of devastation in the Taiwanese town of Guangfu after flooding caused by a barrier lake overflowing washed away a bridge, killing at least 14 people.
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Super Typhoon Ragasa’s outer bands brought heavy rain to Taiwan’s Hualien county, causing a barrier lake in the mountains to overflow and unleashing a wall of water. While it has stopped raining, the government has kept its warnings for the barrier dam, in a remote mountainous area, in place
Super Typhoon Ragasa: 14 killed in Taiwan and Hong Kong battered as storm hits China ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/super-typhoon-ragasa-update-path-hong-kong-taiwan-china
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