More than 100 people have been airlifted out of remote West Australian towns as the state’s worst flooding on record continues.
A 50km-wide inland sea is surging towards the Kimberley coast after the swollen Fitzroy River devastated the town of Fitzroy Crossing earlier in the week.
Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson on Saturday said 105 people had been relocated from the region, while more were expected to be airlifted out in the coming days.
Three-thousand kilograms of food and medicine have been transported to Fitzroy Crossing after the small town’s airport reopened on Saturday.
“We will be working with the businesses across there to see what further supplies they need, both in the days ahead and the weeks ahead,” Dawson told reporters….