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Local authorities have placed up to 300,000 people under evacuation warnings in one of the country's worst flooding incidents.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes by...

At least 10 people have died as parts of Australia’s southeast coast were inundated by the worst flooding in more than a decade.

Tens of thousands of people had been ordered to evacuate their homes by yesterday and many more had been told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast were inundated by the worst flooding in decades that has claimed at least nine lives. Scores of residents, some with pets, spent hours trapped on their roofs in the past few days by a fast-rising river in the town of Lismore in northern New South Wales state. The body of a woman in her 80s was yesterday found by a neighbor in her Lismore home, a police statement said. There were no

Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and hundreds of thousands more have been told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast are inundated by the worst flooding in more than a decade. The flooding has claimed at least 10 lives. Scores of residents spent hours trapped on their roofs by a fast-rising river in a town in northern New South Wales state. The state government says 40,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. In Brisbane, a meteorologist measured more than 37 inches of rain in three days. He says that's close to 80% of the annua...