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Mudslides cut off villages, kill man in Austria

VIENNA (Reuters) - Mudslides unleashed by torrential rains killed one man, wrecked houses and cut off villages in the Austrian province of Styria, authorities said on Saturday.
Image: A man walks through the mud after a landslide destroyed the centre of the village of Sankt Lorenzen
The town center of Sankt Lorenzen, Austria, was covered in mud on Saturday. About 360 people had to leave their homes in the townfor fear of more slides.Herwig Prammer / Reuters

Mudslides unleashed by torrential rains killed one man, wrecked houses and cut off villages in the Austrian province of Styria, authorities said on Saturday.

Police in the southeastern province said they had found the body of a 47-year-old local man swept away by a mudslide on Friday night in the town of Thoerl.

Several small communities near Liezen were stranded by blocked roads. Austrian broadcaster ORF said helicopters evacuated around 20 people from the area after mudslides up to 30 feet high made travel by road impossible.

A further 360 people had to leave their homes in the town of Sankt Lorenzen for fear of more slides given unrelenting rainfall, authorities said.