{"id":3600,"date":"2018-08-25T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2018-08-25T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T10:05:08","slug":"six-dead-thousands-evacuated-in-taiwan-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/08\/25\/six-dead-thousands-evacuated-in-taiwan-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead, thousands evacuated in Taiwan floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Six people have been killed by floodwaters in Taiwan, officials said on Saturday (Aug 25), after days of heavy rain forced thousands to evacuate their homes.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical depression has been dumping torrential rain in central and southern Taiwan since Thursday, with some districts receiving close to 1,000 millimetres of rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Six have died in the storm so far, according to government figures, including three who were killed by a falling scaffold in the southern city of Kaohsiung. Almost 100 more were injured.<\/p>\n<p>More than 6,000 people were evacuated with more than 1,100 still in shelters on Saturday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Images showed residents in Kaohsiung and nearby Tainan wading in knee-deep water, as well as soldiers in central Chiayi county carrying elderly residents and children from their flooded homes.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage also showed scooters and cars half-submerged in water and roads blocked by landslides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-picture--article is-original\" data-css=\"c-picture\">\n<figure class=\"picture__wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"picture__image lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/image\/10651538\/0x0\/2623\/3934\/13aef1ff2a98952888c7c7176e774084\/Yz\/taiwan-floods.jpg\" alt=\"Taiwan floods\" width=\"494\" height=\"741\" data-src=\"\/image\/10651538\/0x0\/2623\/3934\/13aef1ff2a98952888c7c7176e774084\/Yz\/taiwan-floods.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"picture__caption\">This photo taken on Aug 24, 2018, shows damage to a road caused by heavy rain in Yunlin county, central Taiwan. (Photo: AFP\/Central News Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although the depression has already moved northwest away from Taiwan, floods have yet to recede in many areas.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s weather bureau said the severity of the downpour was &#8220;extremely rare&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The island is frequently hit by typhoons in the summer. Last year more than 100 people were injured when Typhoon Nesat battered the island, causing flooding and widespread power outages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Channel News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Six people have been killed by floodwaters in Taiwan, officials said on Saturday (Aug 25), after days of heavy rain forced thousands to evacuate their homes. A tropical depression has been dumping torrential rain in central and southern Taiwan since Thursday, with some districts receiving close to 1,000 millimetres of rainfall. Six have died &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}