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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Afternoon Update: Hawaii wildfires kill six; Coalition defeated on medicines; and a breakthrough on endometriosis?

Structures burning against a inferno sky
Waiola Church in Lahaina and the nearby Hongwanji mission are engulfed in flames. Photograph: Matthew Thayer/AP

Good afternoon. Unprecedented wildfires have torn through the Hawaiian island of Maui overnight, killing six people and displacing 4,000.

The fires, fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora, destroyed businesses in the historic town of Lahaina and left at least two dozen people injured. Rescuers with the US Coast Guard pulled a dozen people from the ocean water off Lahaina after they had dived in to escape smoke and flames. Early assessments of the carnage have found 271 structures have been destroyed or damaged.

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