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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The wrath of Typhoon Morakot has affected nearly 9 million people across four coastal China provinces and killed dozens in Taiwan, officials said Tuesday.
A rescue worker carries a child on Tuesday who survived flooding in southern Taiwan.
1 of 3 The typhoon, which stormed through the Philippines and Taiwan before slamming into eastern China over the weekend, has forced more than 1.4 million people to relocate on the mainland, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs said.
At last six people -- four of them in Zhejiang province -- were killed along the coast, and more than 6,000 homes were destroyed.
In Taiwan, Morakot was blamed for at least 38 deaths, 35 injuries and 62 missing people, said Yu-chu Liang, a senior official with Taiwan's National Disasters Prevention and Protection Commission.
The village of Siaolin was one of several engulfed by flooding and mudslides in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung County over the weekend, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.
Villagers rescued from a massive mudslide in Siaolin said at least 300 others were feared trapped beneath debris, state-run media reported Tuesday. Liang couldn't confirm that figure, but said officials thought that more than 100 people were buried alive.
Helicopters plucked more than 60 survivors from Siaolin and headed back for 150 more people still struggling through the debris, he said. The mudslide buried roadways and cut water and electric supplies, Liang added. source: cnn.com