Floods prompt evacuation of Sydney suburbs | DW News - latest news and breaking stories | DW | 04.07.2022

Visit the new DW website

Take a look at the beta version of dw.com. We're not done yet! Your opinion can help us make it better.

Go to the new dw.com

We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration.

More info OK
  1. Inhalt
  2. Navigation
  3. Weitere Inhalte
  4. Metanavigation
  5. Suche
  6. Choose from 30 Languages

DW News

Floods prompt evacuation of Sydney suburbs

Floods have again hit the Australian state of New South Wales. Sydney received half of its annual rainfall in just 24 hours. Officials ordered thousands of people to evacuate, and authorities warn even more heavy rain is expected in the coming days.

More in the Media Center

Australia fights floods again

Australia fights floods again 04.07.2022

Floods in eastern Australia — in pictures

Floods in eastern Australia — in pictures 03.03.2022

Kidnappings become lucrative business in Nigeria Ort: Abuja, Nigeria Sendedatum: 12.08.2022 Rechte: DW Bildbeschreibung: Yahuza Getso, Nigerian kidnapping ransom negotiator

Kidnapping for ransom becomes lucrative in Nigeria 13.08.2022

12.08.2022 Nigeria's security problems regularly make the front page of the country's newspapers.

Nigeria government under pressure over growing insecurity 13.08.2022

More from DW News

©PHOTOPQR/L'EST REPUBLICAIN ; LITTERATURE - RENTREE LITTERAIRE - LIVRE SUR LA PLACE 2018 - 40EME EDITION. Nancy 8 septembre 2018. Salman RUSHDIE lors de la 40ème édition du Livre sur la Place, premier salon national littéraire de la rentrée. PHOTO Alexandre MARCHI. - Nancy, France, sept 8th 2018 Literature festival Le Livre sur la place : Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels, a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice)... Foto: Alexandre Marchi/MAXPPP/dpa

Top stories in 90 seconds 14.08.2022

FILE PHOTO - A stock photo of police in Paris, France. (Photo by Julien Mattia/NurPhoto)

France enforces new energy conservation rules 13.08.2022

Lebus, 11.08.2020 - Fischsterben in der Oder, hier bei Lebus MOL zwischen den Buhnenfeldern liegen die verschiedenen tote Fischrten, Zander, Heht, Bleie, Barben, Bsche und auch große Welse. Fischsterben inder Oder *** Lebus, 11 08 2020 Fish kill in the Oder, here near Lebus MOL between the groyne fields lie the various dead Fischrten, Zander, Heht, Bleie, Barben, Bsche and also large Welse Fischsterben inder Oder

Chemical pollution suspected in Oder River fish deaths 13.08.2022

Residents pitch in for cleaner, greener Dakar Ort: Dakar, Senegal Sendedatum: 12.08.2022 Mandail Joao helps plant flowers and trees in his Dakar neighborhood.

Dakar residents tackle pollution, inspiring others 13.08.2022

Read also

A kayaker paddles through a flooded residential area following heavy rains in the South Windsor suburb of Sydney, Australia, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Australia: Floods in Sydney worsen, 50,000 told to evacuate 05.07.2022

Emergency workers have said they carried out dozens of rescues overnight. Authorities say a high flood risk could remain through the week.

06.07.2022, Australien, Sydney: Anthony Albanese (M), Premierminister von Australien, und Dominic Perrottet (2.v.l), Premierminister von New South Wales (NSW), treffen sich im Hauptquartier des Katastrophenschutzes des Bundesstaates NSW in Homebush mit den Leitern des Katastrophenschutzes. Foto: James Brickwood/SYDNEY MORNING HERALD/AAP/dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++

Australia floods: Prime Minister Albanese announces relief payments, storm moves north 06.07.2022

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced support payments for people affected by floods in New South Wales as the storm moved to the north of Sydney.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 04: A man is rescued from his car by State Emergency Service workers in Windsor on July 04, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Thousands of residents were forced to leave their homes overnight and a number of evacuation orders are in place across Sydney as heavy rain and flooding continues. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Australia: Floods in Sydney leave roughly 30,000 facing evacuation 04.07.2022

Several places were hit with about a month's rain over the weekend, causing dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks. Roughly 30,000 people have been told to either leave their homes or prepare to do so.

Eine Tankstelle in Camden im Südwesten Sydneys ist von den Fluten überschwemmt. Nach starken Regenfällen sind Gebiete rund um die ostaustralische Stadt Sydney erneut überschwemmt worden. +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++

Australia's Sydney braces for floods amid massive rainfall 03.07.2022

Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate following warnings of flash floods and landslides amid heavy torrential rain.