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AUSTRALIA: Rescue operatives search for 7 missing persons after freak rains

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AUSTRALIA: Rescue operatives search for 7 missing persons after freak rains

Rescue operatives and police are on the look out after no less than seven people were declared missing after unusual torrential rain in Australia’s outback turned the monolith into a series of cascading waterfalls and triggered flash floods.

Reports say a Japanese tourist who was swept away in a car and an Australian family immersed in water were among those declared missing.

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Police were using helicopters to search for the Australian family of six, missing since Christmas Day downpours drenched the desert that is usually sweltering in the midst of the southern summer at this time of year.

Australia police informed that a car carrying three people, believed to be Japanese tourists, was washed off the road by flash floods into a creek near the quiet town of Alice Springs.

 

 

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