Bundaberg, Australia:
Australian police have recovered the body of a woman whose car was swept from the road in heavy flooding in the country's northeast, the first fatality in the disaster.
The woman, 41, had been travelling in convoy with another car from central Mount Isa to Burketown, on the northern Gulf of Carpentaria when both vehicles were swept into the surging waters.
Police were able to rescue two adults and two children from the first vehicle and an adult and three children from the second but could not reach the woman before she disappeared.
Emergency officials scoured the waters and river banks by boat and a police helicopter searched through the night with no success, police said.
"Searchers located the woman's body around 10:20 am on Sunday about two kilometres from the causeway," they said.
Air and land searches were continuing near the coastal city of Gladstone, at the epicentre of the floods, where a 38-year-old man was missing after his fishing boat was swamped on Saturday afternoon.
Officials estimate up to 200,000 people have been hit by the flooding disaster, described as being of "biblical proportions", with entire towns cut off and under water over an area the size of France and Germany combined.