More than 100 dead in Taiwan from typhoon, mudslides

Mudslides and flooding from a weekend typhoon have killed more than 100 people in Taiwan, disaster officials said on Thursday, while hundreds more are still feared buried in a remote mountain village, Reuters reported.

Taiwan's death toll jumped overnight to 107 people, with 61 officially missing, as more than 30 bodies were found at a southern hot springs area wiped out by a mudslide, the National Fire Agency disaster centre said.

About 6,500 others were found stranded in a village near Alishan, a mountain scenic spot popular with overseas tourists, Taiwan's Central News Agency said.

Hundreds more are still missing in remote villages in southern Taiwan, with many possibly buried under a massive mudslide that covered one village, Hsiao Lin, on Monday.

Typhoon Morakot passed over the island at the weekend with sustained heavy rains in the south.