A barrier lake burst its banks on Tuesday afternoon, sending a wall of water into the township of Guangfu. TAIPEI: Fourteen people have died in Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien, with 124 missing, after a barrier lake in the mountains overflowed to deluge a town during a typhoon, the island's fire department said on Wednesday (Sep 24). Taiwan has been lashed since Monday by the outer rim of Super Typhoon Ragasa, now heading for China's southern coast and the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong .