Four people have died and whole towns have been left submerged in water after flooding struck New South Wales in Australia. A deluge of rain over the past few days has caused severe flooding along the coast north of Sydney.

Major flooding in eastern Australia has killed four people and at least one person is missing in an extreme weather event that's with links to climate change, officials said Friday. The big picture: Officials in Australia's most populous state,

Four bodies have been pulled from vast tides of floodwater engulfing parts of northern New South Wales, a fertile region of rivers and valleys about 400km