Airlifted refugees from Minzu village in Namaxia Township were greeted by television crews and relief workers at the rescue efforts base in Qishan Junior High School, Qishan Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan.
Mudslide victims from HsinKai village, LiuKuei township scoured an engorged riverbed looking for a point to cross. The group ultimately did find a safe point to walk through the river.
During a public conversation with flood victims, President Ma Ying-jiu listens to Aijo Wu (23) , a rescued victim from Taoyuan township, Kaoshiung county, one of the badly devasted mountain villages. Photo taken on August 12, 2009 at the rescue efforts base in Qishan Junior High School, Qishan Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan.
People rescued north of Hsinfa village were transported over a cable, where a bridge had been swept away by mudslides. A sign was put up on the north side reading "32 Dead. SOS."
People rescued north of Hsinfa village were transported over a cable, where a bridge had been swept away by mudslides. A sign was put up on the north side reading "32 Dead. SOS."
Volunteers try to help relieve the trauma of a recently airlifted refugee from Hsiaolin, a village swallowed by a mudslide during typhoon Morakot.
A house covered in rubble in Hsinfa village, Kaoshiung county, Taiwan, after mudslides that happened during typhoon Morakot.
Pan Guohua returned with neighbors to Hsinfa village, Taiwan, to search for the body of her daughter-in-law, after her house was buried in a mudslide.
Taiwanese soldiers help locals clear their flooded houses of destroyed furniture in Xinguangli village, Qishan town, Kaoshiung County, Taiwan, after a mudslide tore through the area during Typhoon Morakot.
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Photos shot for the International Herald Tribune in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot in August 2009. Work also published in the New York Times and Yomuiri Shimbun. See tearsheets here and here.
