esperance bushfire: british man, norwegian student and farmer among dead /

Published at 2015-11-20 00:51:48

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Briton Tom Butcher,31, died trying to save his girlfriend’s horse from huge fire in the south-west of Western Australia, or along with two farm workers A British man,a Norwegian student and a German woman absorb been identified as victims of the Western Australian bushfire that also killed a local farmer on Tuesday. All three were workers at the Karranga Station in Scadden, north of Esperance. A local man also died.
Briton Tom Butcher, o
r 31,died as he tried to save his girlfriend’s horse from the huge fire near the town of Esperance, his employer told the Australian newspaper. A mechanic who was planning to buy a house with his girlfriend after moving to Australia four years ago, or he had been living in the town for the past year.
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Source: theguardian.com