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7,000 rendered homeless

Innisfail (Australia): Troops began moving aid to the cyclone-shattered town of Innisfail on Tuesday as residents picked through waterlogged streets littered with rubble and mangled roofs destroyed by Australia's most powerful cyclone in decades. There still was no official estimate of the number of people left homeless, but the region's Mayor said he expected it to be in the thousands. After touring the area and talking to officials, federal lawmaker Bob Katter said 7,000 people were made homeless by the storm. But despite the widespread destruction, nobody was killed by Larry.

AP

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