Tropical storms - including Typhoon Morakot - have pummelled East Asia, leaving dozens dead and triggering landslips. In Taiwan, much of the village of Hsiaolin, in Kaohsiung county, was buried beneath a mudslide.
Taiwan's soldiers have been drafted in to help with the clean-up operation in the area, where more than 100 people are missing, feared buried alive.
Record rainfall flooded rivers and washed away roads, bridges and buildings - including this block of flats, felled in Taimali, in Taiwan's south-eastern Taitung county.
In eastern China, rescuers struggled to get supplies to people trapped by a storm-triggered landslide at Pengxi Township in Zhejiang province.
Residents in Pingyao town in Hangzhou were forced to adopt alternative forms of transport to move around flooded streets.
In Japan, torrential rain drenched the town of Sayo in Hyogo prefecture. Twelve people were reported dead after a swollen river burst its banks.
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