Residents flee ‘unprecedented’ Australian floods
BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) – Residents fled floods in Australia's north-east Thursday as rising waters swamped towns, roads and railways in an “unprecedented” multi-billion-dollar disaster. As hundreds of displaced residents sheltered in evacuation centres and towns battened down for some of the worst deluges on record, Queensland state premier Anna Bligh warned the crisis could drag on for days or weeks. “This is a disaster on an unprecedented scale,” Bligh told reporters. “This is a massive…
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