Looks like something out of a horror movie. Up to 5000 bats drop from trees during heatwave. http://t.co/JOGW3sQcQ3 pic.twitter.com/8RpTCIIBD7Soaring temperatures sent more than 5,000 dead bats falling to the ground in New South Wales, Australia.
- lorraine (@lorrainewhat) November 18, 2014
Flying fox bat carcasses littered streets in the town of Casino after the temperature hit 44 degrees Celsius.
Some residents mounted a last-ditch effort to save the remaining bats by hosing them down with water.
A clear-up operation has been launched to remove the decomposing remains by the local council before the stench becomes over-powering.
Photographer Dee Hartin captured the mass deaths. She told Huffington Post UK: "What I saw when I got there was beyond belief. There were hundreds of them all over the ground everywhere I looked.
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