Storm Kills 50 in Philippines, Taiwan
Pakistan Times Monitoring Desk

TAIPEI (Taiwan): Tropical storm Mindulle pushed toward South Korea on Monday after killing at least 50 people in the Philippines and Taiwan, officials said. Twenty others were missing and feared dead.

In Taiwan the death toll rose to 15 with nine more missing as torrential rains at the storm's fringes continued in mountainous areas four days after Mindulle first struck the island.

Another mudslide in nearby Taichung County killed two people, and an 80-year-old woman and her 4-year-old grandson drowned in their flooded home there, police said.

Rivers swept two others away to their deaths Saturday, the police said.

The storm which has brought southern Taiwan's worst flooding in 25 years killed six other people last week.

The Philippines

In the Philippines, Mindulle killed at least 31 people while 11 others were missing and feared dead officials said .

At least 3,500 people were forced to flee to evacuation centers or to relatives' homes to escape rising floodwaters.

The typhoon destroyed more than $11.7 million worth of crops and livestock in the Philippines, and $7.94 million in infrastructure, disaster officials said.●