(Reuters) - Heavy rains shut four coal mines in eastern Australia on Friday as
military helicopters evacuated stranded residents from inundated towns, and
authorities warned of further flash flooding.
More than 11,000 people in Queensland state have been isolated by the
flooding and thousands had been evacuated, emergency services authorities
said.
The town of Moree, the centre of the region's cotton growing, has been cut in
half by record floodwaters, while authorities are using helicopters to relocate
300 people already at an evacuation centre in the outback town of Roma to
another centre on higher ground.
Whitehaven Coal said it had shut four mines due to heavy rainfall, but the
mines were not flooded and no equipment had been damaged. Other miners and
liquefied natural gas producers reported their operations had so far not been
affected.
Reuters
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