Food Drop-Offs for Flood Ravaged Outback Towns In Western Australia
A supplied image obtained on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, of floodwaters in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. A remote Western Australian town surrounded by a 100-year flood has become a refuge for hundreds of people evacuated from outlying communities. AAP Image/Supplied by Andrea Myers
More than 100 people have been airlifted out of remote West Australian towns as the state’s worst flooding on record continues.
A 50km-wide inland sea is surging towards the Kimberley coast after the swollen Fitzroy River devastated the town of Fitzroy Crossing earlier in the week.
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