A frantic search is underway for a younger baby lacking in floodwaters within the New South Wales Central West.
Emergency companies arrived at Tullamore, close to Parkes, simply earlier than 8pm on Friday night time after two automobiles had develop into trapped in floodwaters.
4 folks had been discovered clinging to timber as floodwaters surged round them.
A five-year-old stays unaccounted for, NSW Police mentioned.
The 4 rescued folks had been taken to Dubbo Hospital for therapy.
"The 2 automobiles stay submerged in floodwaters and police will stay onsite and wait till they'll entry the automobiles," police mentioned in a press release.
It comes as elements of northern and western NSW have been inundated by floodwaters for the fourth time this yr with roads swallowed by water and a number of rescues carried out.
Numerous flood warnings stay in place for the state's inland catchments with water ranges anticipated to proceed rising immediately regardless of the rain stopping.
Authorities have warned that is "only the start" of a protracted catastrophe season by spring and summer time in NSW because the nation endures a 3rd consecutive La Nina climate occasion.
Drivers ignore repeated warnings to keep away from floodwaters