Another woman has been confirmed dead in a flood which inflicted devastation on communities in northern Queensland, Australia.
The Police said the 82-year-old woman’s body was found in a cane paddock in Queensland on Tuesday.
“Initial investigations indicate the woman was last seen by a nearby resident around 6pm Monday night inside a two-storey house,” a Queensland police spokesperson said.
DAILY POST reports that this is coming two days after a 63-year-old woman died in Ingham floodwaters when a rescue boat she was in hit a tree and capsized.
It was gathered that she was a member of the public who was being rescued at the time and was not an emergency worker.
The other five people on board with her were able to get to safety.
The region has been inundated since Saturday, with parts of northern Queensland seeing nearly 2m of rain.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Meteorology, BOM, has already warned that dangerous thunderstorms could bring the threat of more intense localised rainfall in the North Tropical Coast and Tablelands districts, affecting Babinda, Innisfail and Tully.
