Four people, including a nine-year-old girl, are dead and four more are missing as destructive storms from Boxing Day continue to lash Australia’s east coast.
Three of the deaths occurred in Queensland, where ferocious storms rolled in overnight from Christmas to Boxing Day.
They included the death of a young girl who was swept away in a flooded storm drain in the Brisbane suburb of Rochdale.
It is understood the girl jumped a fence at about 6:30pm on Tuesday and was lost in surging waters. Paramedics rushed to the scene but she could not be revived.
A 59-year-old woman on the Gold Coast also died overnight when she was struck by a falling tree.
Police say the woman was struck in the suburb of Helensvale around 9:30pm on Monday night as the state’s south east was hit with intense rain, large hail and fierce winds.
Another Queenslander died in a boat capsize near Green Island in Moreton Bay, while two more of the boat’s passengers remain missing.
Two women are also missing in flood waters at Gympie, where they were sheltered inside a large storm drain when the area was inundated by water.
A third woman who was also in the drain escaped and has been treated for head injuries.
Meanwhile in Victoria, where storms also raged, a man died after being struck by a falling tree branch.
The death occurred in Caringal, in the Gippsland region in Victoria’s east, in the early hours of December 26.
“It is understood a tree branch fell on the man at a private property on Rusks Road just after 9am,” a statement from Victoria Police said.
“Emergency services provided medical assistance however the yet to be formally identified man died at the scene.”
The storms were most severe in southeast Queensland, where more than 120,000 people were left without power on Tuesday night.
By Tuesday evening, the SES had responded to more than 1,000 calls for help around the Gold Coast, Scenic Rim and Logan, according to Queensland Fire and Emergency.
Angus Hines, of the Bureau of Meteorology, said the storms were extensive on Tuesday, stretching across almost the entire eastern seaboard.
Severe thunderstorm warnings were in place for the NSW southern coast into eastern Victoria, with life-threatening flash flooding expected in towns including Eden, Bega, Moruya Heads, Morwell and Sale.
Victoria shouldered some of the heaviest falls on Tuesday, including 69.4mm that fell on Buchan in just half an hour.
Severe thunderstorm warnings were also in place in Queensland, for Capricornia and parts of the central highlands, Coalfields, Wide Bay and Burnett.
Flash flooding is possible in Gladstone, Emerald, Rockhampton, Clermont, Calliope and Mount Morgan.
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In Queensland, the wild storms were accompanied by strong winds, including a 100km/h gust recorded at Gympie and a 96km/h gust at Blackwater.
The storms are expected to concentrate around the NSW-Victoria border from Wednesday, with another pocket of storms around the central and northern Queensland coast, Mr Hines said.
The thunderstorm outbreak is forecast to ease from Thursday.
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