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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Wildfires raged across southern Australia on Monday, and a firefighter was killed as a fire truck overturned speeding to a blaze, police said. Distraught ranchers shot cattle injured by the flames.
Three other firefighters were injured in the accident at an intersection 56 miles northeast of Melbourne, police spokesman Greg Jenkins said.
Around 10,000 firefighters were working to contain more than two dozen wildfires that have killed thousands of head of livestock and left two people dead late Sunday when their car plowed into a tree as they drove through a fire region.
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