The bursting of a barrier lake in Taiwan’s eastern Hualien County has killed at least 14 people, officials said Wednesday, as rescue teams continued operations after Super Typhoon Ragasa unleashed torrential rains across the island. “As of 7 am (Wednesday), 14 people are confirmed dead and 18 were reported injured,” Lee Kuan-ting, a Hualien County Government press official told AFP. “Thirty missing was the figure last night, released by the National Fire Agency, and our teams are still searching,” he added. The disaster struck Tuesday afternoon when the decades-old barrier lake on the upper Mataian Creek, formed by an earlier landslide, burst under the force of heavy rainfall. The floodwaters washed away a bridge and inundated a nearby town, trapping more than 260 people. “In some p

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