Taipei, Taiwan ? A mudslide touched off by a deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village in Taiwan, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for, while a massive landslide in China toppled seven apartment buildings, an official said today.

Typhoon Morakot slammed Taiwan over the weekend with as much as 80 inches of rain before crossing the Taiwan Strait and hitting China.

The storm inflicted the worst flooding the island has seen in at least a half-century, submerging large swaths of farmland in chocolate-brown muck and swamping city streets.

Taiwanese authorities put the confirmed death toll in Taiwan at 38, but that seemed certain to rise. The country’s Cabinet set aside $600 million in emergency funds to help with relief work and to compensate victims’ families.

A disaster appeared to be unfolding at the isolated southern village of Shiao Lin, hit by a mudslide Sunday about 6 a.m. local time — while many people were still asleep — and now cut off by land from the outside world.

Speaking to The Associated Press, a Taiwanese police official who identified himself only by his surname, Wang, said 400 people were unaccounted for in the village. Wang said 100 people had been rescued or otherwise avoided the brunt of the disaster.

One of the rescued villagers, an unidentified middle-aged man, told police that his family of 10 was wiped out.

“They’re gone,” he said, according to a photographer who overheard him. “All gone.”

Another rescued villager, Lin Chien-chung, told the United Evening News he believes as many as 600 people were buried.

“The mudslide covered a large part of the village including a primary school and many homes,” Lin was quoted as saying. “A part of the mountain above us just fell on the village.”