Body found in floodwaters as heavy rain batters northern NSW

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Prime Minister has sent Australian Defense Force personnel and expressed condolences over the death of a man in flood waters in Northern New South Wales. The 61-year-old was last seen clinging to a tree on Friday after his Ute was swept from the road at wild cattle creek bridge at Megan near Dorrigo. His body was recovered today.

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00:00This bridge just behind me on Friday night was a torrent of water coming down from the

00:07Dorigo Plateau and tragically a 61-year-old man lost his life trying to cross that bridge

00:13and get to his home just a kilometre away.

00:16The community here are grieving at the loss of the 61-year-old man who was described as

00:20a very generous soul who would give you the shirt off his back.

00:25So it's a reminder to all of us never to enter floodwaters.

00:28He was so close to home and neighbours described watching it unfold with horror, unable to

00:34do anything to stop it.

00:36He was able to get himself out of his Nissan Navara and cling onto a tree but he was washed

00:42away before emergency services could rescue him.

00:45A tragedy for the local community.

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