A severe heatwave sweeping across southeastern Australia fueled bushfires, forced hundreds of residents in rural towns to evacuate and shattered temperature records, with Melbourne logging its hottest day in nearly 17 years.

Temperatures in parts of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia’s second-most populous state, climbed above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).

In Victoria’s northwest Mallee region, the mercury soared to 48.9 degrees Cel

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