Thousands of residents of the coastal Queensland city of Bundaberg could be isolated for days amid major flooding in the wake of a tropical low.
Hundreds of homes in the regional hub are set to be affected after the Burnett River burst its banks, triggering memories of a 2010 disaster.
More than 400 homes and businesses are under threat, with the river set to peak at 7.6 metres early on Wednesday.
View image in fullscreen Flooding in Bundaberg, Queensland. Photograph: Brock Catasti/Ray White Bundaberg
It is only just below the 7.92m levels of 16 years earlier when the city of more than 70,000 people was inundated and hundreds forced to evacuate.
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