Australian Landslide Hits British Family, Father and Son Killed

Australian Landslide Hits British Family, Father and Son Killed
A police tape in Sydney on Dec. 16, 2014. Joosep Martinson/Getty Images
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SYDNEY—A nine-year-old British boy and his father were killed, and the boy’s mother and brother were critically injured in a landslide on a hiking trail in Australia’s Blue Mountains national park on Monday, police said.

A 15-year-old girl from the same family survived and left the scene on foot, accompanied by emergency services, officers added.