Mudslides triggered by Typhoon Ragasa damaged a village in Taiwan.

Residents of Guangfu Township in Hualien County were left with thick mud coating the roads after the powerful storm swept through the region.

Footage captured by Lai Yihan shows torn asphalt and a silver car lodged against a shop's metal barricade after being swept away by strong floodwaters along Dunhou Road and Fozu Street.

Lai said: 'Currently, rescue capacity is sufficient, but Guangfu Township will need to rebuild its homes, and there is a shortage of manpower among the townspeople. We sincerely appeal to all sectors of society to personally deliver supplies such as rain boots, shovels, and headlamps to Guangfu Elementary School.

'The landslide-dammed lake upstream of Mataian Creek has not yet fully overflowed. We hope that the central government and Hualien County Government can work together, with rescue as the top priority.'

Rescue teams have been deployed to carry out search and recovery operations.

On 23 September, aerial rescue crews airlifted stranded residents from their rooftops. A woman and six men had been trapped in their homes when a nearby lake overflowed.

Local media reported that the Mataian landslide dam in the county overflowed at around 2:50 pm local time, sending torrents rushing downstream.

Super Typhoon Ragasa, described as the strongest storm of the year so far, has wreaked havoc across East Asia after tearing through the northern tip of the Philippines and Hong Kong, killing at least 10 people in the Philippines and displacing thousands. Taiwan has also reported 17 fatalities linked to the storm.

It made landfall in the Philippines' remote and poverty-stricken Babuyan Islands at 3 pm local time on Monday, September 22. It arrived as the country continues to grapple with weeks of severe flooding brought on by an unusually intense monsoon season.

Taiwan's state weather service forecasted 'extremely torrential rain' as Ragasa churns toward Taiwan.

The agency said: 'Its storm radius is quite large, about 320 kilometres (200 miles). Although the typhoon's centre is still some distance away, its wide, strong wind field and outer circulation are already affecting parts of Taiwan.'

The Central News Agency said at least six people were injured and more than 7,000 people were evacuated when the typhoon lashed the southern part of Taiwan.