BEIJING  The toll from the already deadly Typhoon Morakot in the Pacific threatened to soar on Tuesday, as huge mudslides buried a rural village in south-central Taiwan and at least six apartment buildings in coastal China, leaving hundreds of people missing.

The Taiwan mudslide, triggered early Sunday by as much as eight feet of typhoon-spawned rain, was said by local residents to have buried as many as 600 people in the village of Hsiao-lin, but the figure could not be quickly verified.

Image Unverified reports by residents suggested Monday that Hsiao-lin, a village in southern Taiwan, was buried in a mudslide, leaving as many as 600 people missing. Credit... Taiwan Military News Agency, via Reuters

In Pengxi, a mountain-ringed town in coastal China about 270 miles southwest of Shanghai, a landslide buried six four-story apartment buildings as residents slept at 10:30 p.m. Monday, local time. Rescuers pulled four survivors and two bodies from the debris, but were unable to say how many others were missing.