AUSTRALIA FLOODS INUNDATE BRISBANE, 43 MISSING

Australia Massive floods shut down the center of Australia's third-largest city, sent thousands fleeing beginning their homes and sparked panic buying of food on Wednesday as rescuers searched for 43 people lost in floodwaters

Australia's biggest floods in a century have so far killed 16 people given that starting their onslaught across northern mining state Queensland last month, crippling the coking coal industry, destroying communications putting a brake on the financial system and sending the local currency to four-week lows.The flood surge is expected to peak in Brisbane, a riverside city of two million community before sunrise on Thursday and last for days.

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