“Rain increases the risks of rockfalls and landslides, which are currently the biggest challenges,” said Su Yu-ming, the leader of a search team helping the rescue effort.
“These factors are unpredictable, which means we cannot confirm the number of days required for the search and rescue operations.”
Taiwan’s fire department said two bodies were found in the mountains, but wanted to confirm their identities before updating the death toll.
It put the number of missing at 13, three of them foreigners of Australian and Canadian nationality.
Aid supplies are arriving at the scene, while senior politicians such as President Tsai Ing-wen said they were donating a month’s salary to relief efforts.
Japan will provide US$1 million in aid to Taiwan for rescue and recovery effort, its foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, said.
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