In pictures: Fire refugees Australian police have charged a man with lighting one of the country’s deadly bushfires. The 39-year-old was charged with arson causing death, for lighting a fire near Churchill in eastern Victoria state. The blaze killed at least 21 people. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described Australia’s deadliest bushfires as mass murder. [...]
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9 Feb
Boy, 5, Dragged Away by Crocodile as Brother Watches
Sunday, February 08, 2009An Australian tour guide plunged into a croc-infested swamp in a desperate bid to save his five-year-old son snatched by a 10-foot-long crocodile. Steve Doble of Queensland, who owns Daintree Rainforest Rivertrain, flung himself into the waist-deep floodwaters Saturday only to find that his youngest boy had vanished. He was alerted by [...]
9 Feb
Family of boy taken by crocodile in Daintree doesn’t want it killed
NEWS.com.au February 09, 2009 02:00pm THE parents of a five-year-old boy feared taken by a 3-metre crocodile on a north Queensland river say they don’t want any of the reptiles put down. A search for the boy in the Daintree River, north of Cairns, resumed today, but has been hampered by the high tide. Police [...]
