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14 Mar, 2024
bảy người, trong đó có bốn trẻ em, mất tích một ngày sau khi lượng mưa 5,5 inch trong 24 giờ dẫn đến lũ lụt và đường sá đóng cửa
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Seven people are missing in Western Australia after swaths of the outback in the country’s largest and most sparsely populated state (bang có dân cư thưa thớt) were drenched by more than 5.5 inches of rain in 24 hours over the weekend.
The record-breaking rain (mưa kỷ lục) flooded sections of the Nullarbor Plain, a vast mostly barren area, closing off roads and cutting off the main rail link to the east, both crucial freight links.
The missing people, including four children, have not been seen in more than a day after leaving Kalgoorlie-Boulder, an outback city of 30,000 people, in two vehicles on Sunday, according to the police in Western Australia.
One car was driven by an “elderly driver” on his own, while the other is believed to have had “an elderly driver and five other occupants of which four are children” aged between 7 and 17, according to a statement from the police. The missing people, a family, are understood to have been returning home to the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjarra, 400 miles to the northeast.
Since Friday morning, Rawlinna, an isolated community (cộng đồng bị cô lập) of 33 people, has received more than six inches of rain, over half the region’s average annual rainfall of about 10 inches, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Australia is in the middle of summer, and extreme weather has hit other parts of Western Australia. In the coastal vacation town of Exmouth, to the far north of the state, temperatures on Monday were forecast to exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and meteorologists (nhà khí tượng học) have warned that a tropical cyclone (lốc xoáy nhiệt đới) could approach the state.
source: nytimes,
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