Human remains found amid Australia bushfires, police say

Human remains were found in Australia's southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on Sunday.



The blazes, burning out of control during a summer heatwave, have torn through more than 350,000 hectares of bushland in Victoria state since the middle of the week, destroying more than 300 structures, including homes, and leaving thousands without ‍power.



Authorities have said the fires are the worst to hit the southeast since the 2019-2020 Black Summer blazes that destroyed an area the size of Turkey and killed 33 people.



The human remains were found by a vehicle near the town of Longwood, some 110 km north of the state capital Melbourne, Victoria police said in a statement, adding that the victim was not yet identified.



That fire, one of the largest burning on Sunday, has already destroyed properties, vineyards and agricultural land.