A Queensland town has been ordered to evacuate the entire CBD immediately as walls of water surge towards it.
Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour issued the warning to all residents in Maryborough’s CBD in a post to Facebook on Sunday afternoon.
‘There has been a failure in the stormwater system under the barricade. People should evacuate from the CBD immediately,’ he wrote.
The storm water system has failed in the town, nearly 300km north of Brisbane, prompting the urgent evacuation