More than 100 missing in Tasmanian fires
Police are searching for more than 100 missing people after wildfires swept through parts of Tasmania.
Almost 3,000 people were evacuated from their homes after record temperatures of 41.8C in the Australian island led to more than 40 fires burning.
Yesterday firefighters issued an emergency warning for residents of Taranna, 29 miles from the state capital, Hobart, where a fire has been burning for more than three days, reports the BBC.
Their correspondent Nick Bryant, in Sydney, says large swathes of south-east Australia are suffering from the worst fire conditions since the Black Saturday disaster almost four years ago, when 173 people in rural Victoria lost their lives.
He says there has been a combination of a record-breaking heatwave, high winds and drought, with Tasmania by far the worst hit.
Diane
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