Raging wildfires kill at least 84 in Australia
A Country Fire Authority crew monitors a fire in Bunyip state forest near Tonimbuk in Victoria
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Update: more images are available from the Boston Globe.
The death toll in the raging Australian bushfires has risen to at least 84, making it the country’s worst fire disaster.
Police believe more bodies will be found in small towns razed by wildfires in the state of Victoria, the hardest hit area with more than 700 homes destroyed.
Thousands of firefighters battled for a second day today to contain the blazes, which witnesses said reached four storeys high and raced across the land like speeding trains, spewing hot embers as far as the horizon. The most serious fires are burning north of the Victorian capital, Melbourne.
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