China News Service, March 8. According to Agence France-Presse, the recent continuous rainfall in eastern Australia has caused flooding.
Following the discovery of two more victims, a man and a woman, on the 8th local time, the death toll from the floods rose to 20.
On March 2, local time, in New South Wales, Australia, people took a boat through a flooded street.
The two victims are believed to be a missing mother and son whose car was abandoned in the floodwaters, according to reports.
The report also said that on the 8th local time, storms and flash floods flooded large areas of Sydney.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has warned Sydney faces a "difficult 48 hours" with about 60,000 people under evacuation orders and the city's Manly Dam already starting to overflow.
The report said that as the heavy rainfall continued into the second week, the New South Wales emergency service center, where Sydney is located, was stretched and issued a flood warning for the state's coastline on the 8th.
An emergency services spokesman said the level of damage to property and wildlife from the heavy rainfall over the past week was similar to that of the 2019 Australian bushfires.
Emergency services also said that after inspecting 5,000 flood-damaged homes in the area, they believed almost half of them were uninhabitable.