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Gold Coast storm dead identified
Police have released the name of a man who was killed in a wind storm on the Gold Coast on Wednesday afternoon.
Mark Bayliss, 47, of Surfers Paradise was on the first floor of a building on Elkhorn Avenue when he was hit by glass and a piece of flying metal that shattered a window.
Police said the piece of metal had been torn off another building then hit the window and Mr Bayliss.
He was rushed to the Gold Coast Hospital where he died from his injuries.
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