Australia: more rain, floods and a dead cool

New rainfall caused flash floods on Monday and the death of another person, in northeastern Australia several days affected by unprecedented floods.

After heavy rain during the weekend, which increased the overflow of rivers, a torrent of water rushed through the streets of Toowoomba, 130 km west of Brisbane (Queensland, northeast). At least one person drowned

"There were at least one death. yet the exact number but there is at least one victim, and enormous damage, " said the mayor of the city of 130,000 people, Peter Taylor, the ABC radio.

The wooden houses were torn from their foundations and washed away several hundred yards through the torrents of water, which also projected vehicles against store windows and ripped the gas station pumps, said Steve Jones, Mayor of Lockyer Valley, near Brisbane.

North of Brisbane, the city of Gympie was cut in two by flood waters, while there were neighborhoods in Dalby, west of Brisbane, which were flooded for the fifth time, forcing some of its 130,000 residents to evacuate their homes.

In Brisbane, capital of Queensland, sandbags were distributed due to the projected threat of rain on the lower parts of this city of two million.