
Storms hit southern Australia with high winds and heavy rain leaving one person dead and over 120,000 people without power, authorities said on Monday.
According to the emergency services, a 63-year-old woman was killed when a tree fell on a cabin at a holiday park on the Victoria-New South Wales border.
“It’s a sad and tragic set of circumstances for the woman’s family and my thoughts and sympathy go out to her and the emergency services who responded to that incident,” Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan told a news conference.
Allan warned of “damaging, destructive winds” and ” abnormally high tides and destructive surf along coastal areas” in a post on X. She urged people to prepare to take shelter indoors.