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Tornado outbreak kills six in south and mid-western US
A tornado caused extensive damage in the town of Cincinnati in Arkansas A series of tornadoes in the south and mid-western US have killed six people, injured several others and caused power failures for thousands in the region.
Three residents of the small town of Cincinnati in Arkansas were killed by a twister early on Friday morning.Tornadoes were later spotted near St Louis, Missouri and were blamed for the death of three people in the southern part of the state, authorities said.
At least two people in Arkansas and six in Missouri have been injured.
The tornado in Cincinnati caused damage near a local highway in the town's centre and points west of Washington County in Arkansas, county dispatcher Josh Howerton said, adding that there were "lots of injuries".
"It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me," Chris Sizemore, a resident of Cincinnati, told the Associated Press news agency.
The tornado hit the town, located about 20 miles (32km) west of the city of Fayetteville, around 0610 local time (1210GMT) on Friday, said Joe Sellers, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oklahoma.
Emergency responders were experiencing difficulties early on Friday in reaching damaged areas in the region because of power lines that had been knocked down, Rick Johnson, the deputy emergency manager for Washington County, said.
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said that power was out throughout Washington County.
A local airport cancelled flights due to debris on its runway in Benton County, a region near the Arkansas state lines with Oklahoma and Missouri, Matt Garrity, the county's manager of emergency services, told the CNN news network.
Australia's Queensland faces 'biblical' floodlink
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Aerial footage shows the extent of the damage
A senior official has described the flooding in Queensland, Australia, as a disaster of "biblical proportions".
State Treasurer Andrew Fraser said the economic impact would be severe, with huge costs compounded by lost income from mining, farming and tourism.Rockhampton, where 77,000 people live, is the latest city bracing for impact, amid warnings of 30ft (9m) floodwaters.
More than 20 other towns have already been left cut off or flooded across an area larger than France and Germany.
The crisis has been triggered by Australia's wettest spring on record. At least six river systems across Queensland have broken their banks. The floods have affected about 200,000 people, and many have been evacuated.
"We're still directly battling floodwaters, we haven't seen the peak of the flood yet at centres like Rockhampton," said Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who toured the stricken areas.
'Huge cost' There are concerns that damage could cost billions of Australian dollars to repair.
QUEENSLAND
- North-eastern Australian state
- Largely tropical climate
- Area: 1.73 million sq km (668,000 sq mile)
- Coastal regions, including Great Barrier Reef, designated World Heritage Site
- Mining and cattle ranching important inland
Mr Fraser has had to delay a fiscal and economic review in order to account for the costs of the floods.
"In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions," he told journalists in the flood-hit town of Bundaberg."The cost to the state will be huge - both in direct costs such as rebuilding roads, and other damaged infrastructure and providing relief payments to families - but also in lost income, while the mining, agriculture and tourism sectors recover," he said.
"Royalty forecasts are likely to be hit with freight lines cut and reports that many mines may not reach full production again for two to three months."
In some areas the waters have been receding, but around Rockhampton they are still rising.
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Mayor of Rockhampton, Brad Carter: 'It'll probably be two weeks before residents can go home'
"We know we have prepared as best we can - most people who are expecting water to inundate their houses have evacuated," he said.
He said others who needed to evacuate would be advised to leave their homes, and those who refused could be forced to leave.
The town's airport was closed to commercial flights, and Mr Carter said the area was likely to be cut off for 10 days.
"The community is still expecting to have significant amounts of flood waters at the height of about 8.5m into the middle of January," he said.
Among the areas already hit by the flooding are Emerald - a town of some 11,000 people - and two smaller towns, Theodore and Condamine, which have been completely evacuated.
In some areas, helicopters were used to deliver supplies and food to cut-off householders.
Queen Elizabeth II has sent her "sincere sympathies" to people caught up in the flooding.
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