Our Aussie Somalis
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:06 am
What is going on down there? I hope all of you'all escaped these fires and are ok.
Australia's prime minister has called the country's deadliest bushfires, believed to be the result of arson, "mass murder".
The toll from the fires in the country's southeast hit 128 early on Monday as Kevin Rudd said he feared the "numbing" number would rise further.
"This is of a level of horror that few of us anticipated. There are no words to describe it other than mass murder," Rudd told Australian television.
Some of the fires eased on Monday but thousands of firefighters and soldiers continued to battle dozens of blazes across an area of about 3,000 sq km across the states of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.
"There are no words to describe it other than mass murder"
The authorities expect the toll to rise as they search for scores of missing in more than 750 burnt-out homes and completely destroyed towns.
Chris Harvey, a survivor of a massive fire that tore through several small towns north of Melbourne on Saturday night, told local media that it was a "most horrible day".
"It's going to look like Hiroshima, I tell you. It's going to look like a nuclear bomb," he said.
Source: Al Jazeera.
Australia's prime minister has called the country's deadliest bushfires, believed to be the result of arson, "mass murder".
The toll from the fires in the country's southeast hit 128 early on Monday as Kevin Rudd said he feared the "numbing" number would rise further.
"This is of a level of horror that few of us anticipated. There are no words to describe it other than mass murder," Rudd told Australian television.
Some of the fires eased on Monday but thousands of firefighters and soldiers continued to battle dozens of blazes across an area of about 3,000 sq km across the states of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales.
"There are no words to describe it other than mass murder"
The authorities expect the toll to rise as they search for scores of missing in more than 750 burnt-out homes and completely destroyed towns.
Chris Harvey, a survivor of a massive fire that tore through several small towns north of Melbourne on Saturday night, told local media that it was a "most horrible day".
"It's going to look like Hiroshima, I tell you. It's going to look like a nuclear bomb," he said.
Source: Al Jazeera.
