Search underway for woman swept away in floodwaters

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Emergency services are continuing to search for a woman who went missing in floodwaters in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. The 26-year-old Chinese national was a passenger in a vehicle which entered floodwaters at North Rothbury near Cessnock last night.

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00:00Police have said the woman who went missing in floodwaters last night in the New South Wales

00:09Hunter Valley is a 26-year-old Chinese national who has been working in Australia as an engineer

00:15for the past two to three years. The woman was visiting Cessnock for the weekend. Another 27-year-old

00:23Chinese national was the driver of a mini country van which got stuck at a causeway in floodwaters

00:29in Rothbury. Police say both women attempted to leave the vehicle as the floodwaters rose.

00:36Everyone's quite destroyed in relation to it. It's not a great situation. It's an awful situation

00:41to be confronted by but I can say the emergency services there, the police, CES, everyone's doing

00:46the best they can to try to locate her. Police say the family of the 27-year-old woman have been

00:51notified and the search has resumed today. Water police have been deployed to the area along with

00:58SES, VRA rescue and police. Police are advising anyone who comes into contact with floodwaters

01:05to see clear.

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