Deadly storms hit Australian city 'like a quake'
Afp, Sydney
Rescue workers urged thousands of people to evacuate their homes yesterday after deadly storms lashed Australia's east coast, leaving parts of one city looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said. The death toll rose to nine when police found the body of a man who died after he was swept into a stormwater drain on a flooded road. Authorities earlier found the body of a man who died when his car was swept off a highway into a swollen creek. His wife and three young children, aged two, three and nine, and who were travelling with him, also died when the road collapsed underneath them, but their bodies had been found earlier.
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