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Evacuees wait to return to flood-hit NT remote communities as transport links severed by rising rivers

Daguragu traditional owner Dianne King (left) and local resident Ursula Chubb are being housed at the Howard Springs facility after their community was hit by flooding. (ABC News: Dane Hirst)

Locals from several flood-hit remote communities in the Northern Territory evacuated to Darwin say they do not know how long they will have to wait before returning home. 

Residents in the communities of Kalkarindji, Daguragu and Pigeon Hole were moved to the Howard Springs facility on Darwin's outskirts on Wednesday and Thursday as the Upper Victoria River and nearby creeks burst their banks.

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