Australian town on crocodile alert after floods

A FLOODED Australian town was warned to be alert for marauding crocodiles swimming its streets yesterday.

Up to 1,000 people have already been evacuated from Mackay, a mining and sugarcane farming town in Queensland, after it received twice its monthly average of rain in 24 hours. About 635mm (25 inches) of rain fell.

The airport was closed by floodwater and debris, and phone land lines were cut, leaving only mobiles working.