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Typhoon ravages Taitung, brings heavy rainfall
CASUALTIES:Three people were killed on Thursday, while 142 were reportedly injured yesterday, with a majority sustaining cuts to the head and limbs
Typhoon Nepartak ravaged Taitung yesterday, while pummeling much of the country with strong, gusty winds and heavy rain.
At 4:37am yesterday, a weather station recorded gusts of 205kph in Taitung City, which reached the highest level of 17 — referring to gusts that measure between 202kph and 220kph — on the extended Beaufort wind force scale, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said.
The previous record was recorded in 1955, when Typhoon Iris hit the nation.
At that time, gusts reached 186kph, the bureau said.
The first storm of this year’s Pacific typhoon season made landfall at 5:50am yesterday in Taitung’s mountainous Taimali Township (太麻里
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/07/09/2003650657
