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Fraser Barton and Laine Clark

"Doesn't get any worse': towns brace for cyclone Zelia

Key infrastructure in Port Hedland has shut down as a cyclone approaches Western Australia's coast. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

A cyclone has intensified into a destructive category-five system as it approaches Australia, set to cross the coast as its most powerful and dangerous.

Ports, schools and roads have closed as Western Australia's Pilbara coast braced for Tropical Cyclone Zelia, bringing heavy rainfall and "hard to fathom" damaging winds.

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