Australian police find human remains amid forest fires
Human remains have been found in southeastern Australia, where forest fires have been raging for several days, destroying buildings, cutting off power to thousands of homes, and burning vast areas of vegetation, police said on Sunday.
This happened near the town of Longwood, about 110 km north of the state capital Melbourne, Victoria police said in a statement, adding that the victim had not yet been identified.
The fires, which got out of control during the local summer heatwave, have engulfed more than 350,000 hectares of scrubland in the state of Victoria since the middle of this week, destroying more than 300 buildings, including homes, and leaving thousands of people without electricity.
Authorities said these are the worst fires to hit the southeast of the country since the fires during the so-called Black Summer of 2019-2020, which destroyed an area the size of Turkey and killed 33 people.
(reuters, lup)