Tasmania bushfires – in pictures

LAST UPDATED AT 09:45 ON Mon 7 Jan 2013
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(Photo Chris Kidd/AFP/Getty Images)

A house is completely burnt out in the devastated Boomer Bay area  after bushfires swept across the island state of Tasmania, Australia, at the weekend. Up to 100 people remain unaccounted for as the search for survivors gathers pace. Many are feared dead.