TAIPEI: Nearly 300 people living in remote mountain villages in Taiwan were airlifted to safety yesterday morning as continued bad weather threatened a fresh wave of mudslides in the district most affected by Typhoon Aere.
Hundreds of rescuers continued to search for survivors and evacuate residents from the Wufeng township in northern Hsinchu county, where several villages were hit by mudslides triggered by the strong winds and heavy rains of Typhoon Aere on Wednesday.
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