Authorities search for casualties in Australia fire ruins

A search for bodies has begun among the charred ruins of more than 100 homes and other buildings destroyed by wildfires in Australia’s island state of Tasmania.

Acting Police Commissioner Scott Tilyard said no casualties had yet been reported, but it would take time before officials were certain that no-one had died in the blazes that have razed 50,000 acres of forests and farmland across southern Tasmania since Friday.