Twenty people have lost their lives in the floods in Australia.

This latest death toll comes after authorities discovered the bodies of a woman and a man in Sydney on Tuesday.

These two people had been wanted since their car was found in the middle of floodwaters, according to the police.

The next 48 hours will be "difficult", warned the meteorological services.

Some 60,000 Sydney residents were told to evacuate their homes on Tuesday, ahead of flash flooding in many parts of the city, according to emergency services.

“The aquatic equivalent of forest fires”

Flood alerts have been issued along all of the state's 2,000 kilometers of coastline.

These floods are "the water equivalent of the unprecedented wildfires" that ravaged Australia for months in 2019 and 2020, said Phil Campbell, spokesman for the relief services.

The violent weather, which began last week, caused damage to property and wildlife similar to that caused by these fires, he added.

“They have the same consequences for the population: closed roads, damaged infrastructure and power cuts,” he said.

In the past 24 hours, rescuers have received around 100 calls for help and this figure was expected to rise on Tuesday.

colossal damage

In northern New South Wales, flooding has destroyed homes, swept away cars and forced hundreds of residents to their roofs.

In the Northern Rivers region, 800 people are housed in emergency structures, said Charlene York, commissioner in the state emergency services.

Nearly half of the 5,000 homes devastated by flooding following the disaster are now uninhabitable.

Mullumbimby, a town south of Brisbane has been cut off from the rest of the world for several days, without a phone or internet or any outside help, said resident Casey Whelan.

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