Australian police on Tuesday (April 5) recovered the bodies of a British national and his nine-year-old son killed in a landslide on a hiking trail in the Blue Mountains national park near Sydney.
A 50-year-old woman and a boy aged 14 remained in critical condition after surgery, while a 15-year-old girl is in hospital under observation, New South Wales state police said.
The family of five, holidaying in Australia, were bushwalking at Wentworth Falls on Monday afternoon when four of them were hit by falling rocks, killing two. Rescuers took more than an hour to reach the site and a helicopter was used to retrieve the bodies, media reported.
Australia's east has been lashed by heavy rains triggering flash flooding and mudslides, with Sydney recording its wettest March on record.
