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 | A Taiwan construction worker operates an excavator to remove rubble from a collapsed bridge in Tungshih town in central Taichung County, which was devastated by torrential rain and severe flooding in the wake of Typhoon Mindulle July 5, 2004. The mudslides and floods have killed at least 18 people in Taiwan, with 12 people still missing and thousands more stranded. click to open  |  | An aerial view of houses in Taichung county in central Taiwan that have been destroyed by a swollen river on July 6, 2004, after days of torrential rain in the wake of Typhoon Mindulle. Mudslides and severe flooding have killed 22 people in Taiwan, with another 14 still missing and tens of thousands stranded in the mountains without food or water. click to open |  | An aerial view of houses in Taichung county in central Taiwan that have been destroyed by a swollen river on July 6, 2004, after days of torrential rain in the wake of Typhoon Mindulle. Mudslides and severe flooding have killed 22 people in Taiwan, with another 14 still missing and tens of thousands stranded in the mountains without food or water. click to open |  | Residents fleeing severe flooding in central and southern Taiwan take shelter in a town hall in Tungshih in Taichung county, July 6, 2004. At least 22 people in Taiwan have been killed by mudslides and floods in the wake of Typhoon Mindulle, with another 14 people still missing and tens of thousands stranded without food and drinking water. click to open |  | Residents fleeing severe flooding in central and southern Taiwan take shelter in a town hall in Tungshih in Taichung county, July 6, 2004. At least 22 people in Taiwan have been killed by mudslides and floods in the wake of Typhoon Mindulle, with another 14 people still missing and tens of thousands stranded without food and drinking water. click to open |  | Vehicles, furniture, and other debris pile in a flood water wash late Sunday, July 4, 2004, in the west central Taichung county, Taiwan. Mudslides buried houses and rescuers battled muddy floodwaters to evacuate trapped villagers from mountainsides Sunday as Taiwan's death toll from tropical storm Mindulle rose to 19, with nine others missing, officials said. click to open |  | Villagers look at what is left of their church buried up to the roof by a landslide caused by heavy rains from typhoon Mindulle, Tuesday, July 6, 2004, in Taichung county, central Taiwan. Workers used bulldozers and shovels to clear and repair mountain roads damaged by massive flooding that has killed at least 23 people, left 14 others missing and stranded thousands of villagers in central and southern Taiwan. Tropical storm Mindulle has pounded the island since the weekend. Torrential rains at the storm's fringes have caused Taiwan's worst floods in 25 years. click to open |
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