Monday, February 16, 2009

Man charged for Australian forest fire

A 39-year-old man has been charged in Australia, with starting one of the forest fires that ravaged the south of the country last week. Brendan Sokaluk is thought to have started one of the fires close to the town of Churchill, in Victoria. The subsequent blaze claimed the lives of 21 people and destroyed 30,000 hectares of forest.


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