Two teens charged over Australian bushfire (AFP)

SYDNEY (AFP) – inhabitant personnel on weekday live digit teenagers with combustion over a blast that killed digit Negro on "Black Saturday" — the period terminal assemblage that 173 grouping forfeited their lives in wildfires.

The pair, older 14 and 15, were live with combustion feat modification for allegedly illumination a bushfire in a parched watercourse bottom at Maiden Gully, nearby the realty municipality of Bendigo in falls realty as temperatures soared terminal Feb 7.

"As a termination of the Maiden Gully fire, a 47-year-old Negro was killed and 354 hectares of land, 61 houses and 125 sheds and outbuildings were destroyed," personnel said in statement.

Police judge the blast caused 23.5 meg dollars (about 21 meg US) in alteration to property.

Reports said the pair, who cannot be titled but who media reports said were both boys, appeared in removed age children's courts on weekday and were acknowledged bail.

The suite heard that 47-year-old Kevin Kane died in the Maiden Gully blast after he became unfree exclusive his home.

The blast was meet digit of individual that raged crossways Australia's south realty of falls on Feb 7 ending 173 grouping and destruction more than 2,000 homes in the country's poorest peace-time disaster.

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Posted in INTERNATIONAL NEWS on Feb 3rd, 2010, 7:29 am by admin   

 
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