Taipei - Thousands of soldiers and rescue workers began cleaning up Taipei's mud-caked and waterlogged streets yesterday after Typhoon Nari dumped record amounts of rain on Taiwan, killing 39 people.
At least 21 people were missing and 139 injured after Nari turned roads into torrents of water that flowed past second-storey windows in Taipei's worst-ever flooding.
The victims drowned, were buried under landslides or electrocuted by downed power lines in the north of the island, the disaster response centre said.