Fed: Steve returns to cause more damage

AAP General News (Australia)
02-29-2000
Fed: Steve returns to cause more damage

By Debra Nowland, Janelle Miles and Eugenie Navarre

BRISBANE, Feb 29 AAP - Cyclone Steve returned to life today, threatening to turn its
fury on the Northern Territory after claiming its first victim and causing millions of
dollars of crop and property damage in Queensland.

A teenager was swept to his death yesterday while riding an inflated tyre tube in a
flood-swollen creek near Tully, about 100km south of Cairns.

The 17-year-old had been playing with a group of friends at Five Mile Creek when they
were hit by a wall of water from a flash …