SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian bushfires killed at least 14 people in the southern state of Victoria on Saturday as a heatwave sparked more than 40 blazes across the state and neighbouring New South Wales, police said.
Victoria's deputy police commissioner Kieran Walshe said all the deaths were in a massive fire 80 km north of Melbourne in rural towns -- six at Kinglake, four at nearby Wandong, three at Strathewen and one in Clonbinane.
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