Taiwan military rescues some 300 typhoon victims CISHAN, Taiwan - Taiwan's military rescued about 300 people Tuesday after a mudslide touched off by Typhoon Morakot consumed a village, but scores remained missing. A helicopter on a relief operation in the area crashed into a mountain with three crew aboard. Storm drenches China with heavy rains A storm drenched China's southeast on Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, officials said. In Vietnam, the death toll from a separate storm rose to 55. Seven dead as tropical storm Wipha sweeps across China Seven people were confirmed dead and three were missing as tropical storm Wipha tore across China, narrowly missing the nation's financial capital Shanghai, state media said Thursday.
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