(CNN) -- Hundreds of people remained unaccounted for Tuesday in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot ravaged the island, triggering mudslides, damaging homes and killing at least 62 people.
The number of missing remained elusive Tuesday night because of the breadth of destruction in Taiwan, officials said.
Morakot dumped 83 inches of rain on parts of the island over the weekend, unleashing the worst flooding there in half a century, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Buildings collapsed in the floodwater, and mudslides buried everything in their paths.
After hitting Taiwan Sunday, the storm roared on to mainland China and sowed chaos there, killing at least six people and displacing 1.4 million, authorities said.
Yet the death toll was much higher in Taiwan. And there were fears that it could rise amid reports that several hundred people may have been buried in mudslides that struck two villages in Kaohsiung County on the southern part of the island
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