Torrential rain from passing typhoon shuts down southern Taiwan, rail line cut

Torrential rains from a passing typhoon shut down a swathe ‌of southern ‌Taiwan on Friday, leaving more than five million people off work or school and flooding severing a section of a main rail line.Although Typhoon ‌Mekkhala, which is now over southern Japan's Ryukyu Islands, did not make direct landfall in Taiwan, its outer bands have ​brought heavy ⁠rain to parts of the ​island, especially in ‌Kaohsiung, Tainan and Pingtung in the south.The governments of all three, where ‌more than five million people live, ordered offices and schools closed on Friday.Severe ​flooding in Taina…READ FULL ARTICLE