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Residents being evacuated from NT remote communities of Kalkarindji, Daguragu, Pigeon Hole, and Palumpa amid major flooding

Heavy rainfall is causing major flooding in a handful of remote communities south of Darwin.  (Supplied)

Hundreds of residents from four remote communities in the Northern Territory are being evacuated due to major flooding in the region. 

NT Police Commander Danny Bacon this afternoon said that emergency services were working to relocate as many as 700 people from Kalkarindji, Daguragu and Pigeon Hole, to Darwin via Katherine, as soon as possible. 

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