Australia suffers flash floods in southeast, Melbourne suburb evacuated


  • World
  • Friday, 14 Oct 2022

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Thousands of people across Australia's southeast were asked to evacuate their homes on Friday, including some in a western suburb of Melbourne, after two days of incessant rains triggered flash flooding and fast-moving waters burst river banks.

Large parts of Victoria state, southern New South Wales and the northern regions of the island state of Tasmania were pounded by an intense weather system with some taking more than a month's worth of rain since late Wednesday, officials said.

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