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Heavy rain sent landslides barreling through South Korea, killing 17 and leaving at least three missing, officials said.

A landslide buried 20 boys and four adults at a Malaysian orphanage Saturday where scores of rescuers were digging by their hands in soil softened by the rains to find the missing, police said.

Filipino rescuers who dug by hand to save people buried by a landslide were losing hope of finding 21 still missing in the disaster that killed at least three people in a remote gold mining village, officials said Saturday.

A powerful typhoon made a direct hit on Taiwan on Sunday, sending residents scurrying for cover and rescue crews rushing to evacuate people in mountainous regions vulnerable to landslides.

The death toll from the mudslides in a northwestern Chinese province now stands at 1,407, state-run Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing the government.

Storm-induced mudslides across China have pushed up the death toll and left more than 1,000 people missing, state media reported on Friday.

At least 1,117 have died in China's mudslides, state-run Xinhua news agency reports.

Landslides killed at least 65 people and left hundreds missing Sunday in northwest China's Gansu province, the latest disaster caused by widespread flooding in the country.

A week of relentless rains in the northern Philippines have put dozens of towns and villages under water, with more than 100 people drowned or killed by landslides, officials said on Friday. The rains were brought by Typhoon Parma.

Typhoon Parma crossed the northern tip of the already storm-battered Philippines on Saturday and early Sunday, triggering landslides that killed at least 12 people, local media reported.