A total of 12 more victims of typhoon Morakot were confirmed in Taiwan Friday, Aug. 21, raising the death toll to 153, local disaster response authorities said.

The authorities also reported 464 people were missing, 24 more than Thursday's figure, and 45 people injured as of 1 p.m. Friday.

The highest confirmed death tolls were in the counties of Kaohsiung at 87, Tainan with 28 and Pingtung with 21.

Rescue work is still underway at two villages in Kaohsiung where at least 506 villagers were buried in mudslides. No exact casualty figures are available.

According to the island's agriculture department, Morakot has caused 13.45 billion New Taiwan dollars (408.19 million U.S. dollars) of losses in the agriculture sector.

Morakot was the worst typhoon to hit the island in nearly five decades, wreaking havoc across the central and southern regions.

According to Yang Yi, spokesman with China's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, relief funds donated from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan had already totaled 781.8 million yuan (114 million U.S. dollars) as of Friday.

A star-studded television fundraiser on the Chinese mainland raised 351.4 million yuan for Taiwan's typhoon victims on Thursday night, including 330 million yuan from the mainland, 9.24 million yuan from Hong Kong and Macao, and 12.15 million from overseas donors.