More than 200 people were evacuated overnight from Sunday to Monday in northeastern Australia after heavy flooding blocked roads and pushed crocodiles into towns, AFP said. quoted by Agerpres.

The state of Queensland was hit by strong winds and torrential rain after the tropical cyclone passed, and Australian army helicopters were sent to rescue residents in flooded areas.

At least 200 people were evacuated by rescue teams overnight, police said, while rain is expected on Monday.

Nine people, including a seven-year-old patient, took shelter on the roof of a hospital in Wujal-Wujal, a predominantly Aboriginal village in the northeastern part of the island-continent.

“We know these people are in a desperate situation,” said Kylie Henslow, a local official.

The village of 300 residents is now “a sea of ​​dirty water and filth”, she added.

On the other hand, crocodiles pushed by the floods have been spotted in Wujal Wujal and several surrounding towns.

Cairns, a city of 150,000 people, was almost surrounded by water that spilled onto the main thoroughfares leading to this important tourist center near the Great Barrier Reef and flooded its airport.

“This level of rainfall is unprecedented,” Queensland Premier Stephen Miles told the media on Monday.

“We deployed literally every boat we could find in Cairns to evacuate people who couldn’t do it on their own,” he added.