Rescuers look to save stricken flood victims

Rescuers raced today to reach people trapped on roofs after a flash flood hurled a tsunami-like wall of water through Australia’s waterlogged east, tossing cars like toys, killing at least eight people and leaving 72 missing.

The violent surge near the town of Toowoomba after a fresh storm yesterday escalated Australia’s two-week-old flood crisis in Queensland state and brought the overall death toll to 18.