A drone view shows a collapsed bridge submerged in flood waters, in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Guangfu township, Hualien County, Taiwan September 24, 2025 in this screengrab obtained from a video. The Warthog Air Squadron/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. Verification: -Buildings and road layout match file and satellite images -Date verified by the metadata of files
A drone view shows a bridge destroyed as a barrier lake collapsed due to heavy rain, in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Guangfu township, Hualien County, Taiwan September 24, 2025 in this screengrab obtained from a video. The Warthog Air Squadron/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. Verification: -Buildings and road layout match file and satellite images -Date verified by the metadata of files
A drone view shows a bridge destroyed as a barrier lake collapsed due to heavy rain, in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Guangfu township, Hualien County, Taiwan September 24. The Warthog Air Squadron/via REUTERS
A drone view shows a collapsed bridge submerged in flood waters, in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Guangfu township, Hualien County, Taiwan September 24. The Warthog Air Squadron/via REUTERS

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's fire department on Thursday revised down to 14 the death toll from a typhoon this week on its remote east coast, but said 33 people were still unaccounted for.

The deaths happened after Super Typhoon Ragasa's outer bands brought heavy rain to Taiwan's Hualien county, causing a barrier lake in the mountains to overflow and unleash a wall of water onto the small town of Guangfu.

Having said the previous day that 17 had died, the fire department adjusted that to 14, saying some casualties had been counted twice.

It put the new number of missing at 33, a figure that had hit 152 on Wednesday, as the government searches for people reported out of contact.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sam Holmes)