Millions of rotting fish to be removed from Outback river

Specialist contractors will remove millions of rotting fish from Australia’s Darling River after an unprecedented die-off caused by depleted oxygen levels due to recent floods and hot weather, police said (Samara Anderson/AAP Image/AP)

Contractors are being hired to remove millions of rotting fish from a river in the Australian Outback after an unprecedented die-off following floods and hot weather, police said on Monday.

The fish started dying in the Darling River near the New South Wales town of Menindee on Friday.