Taiwanese authorities were rushing to repair roads in the mountainous hot spring town of Wulai on Monday, where 1,100 people were without electricity or water after Typhoon Soudelor ripped through the island.
Landslides triggered by the storm, which hit in the early hours of Saturday and was billed as the most powerful typhoon this year, blocked the main road into the northern township just south of capital Taipei.
“People are now able to walk past the area after our emergency repair, but it may take another three or four days for vehicles to get through,” said Chiang Chien-ming, a chief road engineer at the transportation ministry.
About 100 residents in Xiaoyi village who were previously unaccounted for were contacted Saturday night and were safe.
Soldiers were searching for another 10 people reported to be unreachable, a spokesman for the New Taipei City fire bureau told AFP.
