Barrier lake evacuation alerts to be raised to higher emergency level

Interior Minister Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said Sunday that evacuation alerts for major mudslide floods, including those involving barrier lakes, would be upgraded to a tsunami-level warning to indicate a higher state of emergency.

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