SYDNEY, Nov 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A man’s body has been found, in burnt-out bush-land in the Australian state of New South Wales, authorities said today (Thursday), taking the death toll of an ongoing bush-fire, to four.
Police believe the remains are that of a 58-year-old man, who lived in a shed nearby and had been missing since the blaze flared up last Friday.
Three other people were killed when a record number of emergency level fires struck the state’s north coast region on Friday and Saturday last week.
Almost one week later, exhausted firefighters continued to battle roughly 56 blazes across the state, 24 of which were uncontained.
“After a challenging few days, there are still more than 800 firefighters in the field, working on containing these fires,” a New South Wales Rural Fire Service spokesperson said.
So far this bush-fire season, more than one million hectares have been scorched and over 200 properties damaged or completely destroyed in NSW alone.
Further north, in the State of Queensland, where 14 properties have so far been lost, conditions are predicted to worsen throughout the weekend. As of this morning, there were around 80 fires burning across the state.– NNN-AGENCIES
