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Tim Hanlon

Teen girl's 90 minute trek for help after Australia landslide kills dad and brother

A teenage girl, 15, hiked for 90 minutes to raise the alarm after her family had been caught by a landslide killing her father and brother, in Australia.

The family were trekking at Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney where heavy rain had made the conditions treacherous when earth gave way and hit them on Monday afternoon.

The 49-year-old father and his nine-year-old son were killed and the mother, 50, and a second son, aged 14, are fighting for their lives in hospital.

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