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Anna Bligh, Australia, Brisbane, Emergency service, Flash flood, Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Toowoomba
Eight people are confirmed dead and fears are held for more than 70 people still missing after the unprecedented flooding yesterday.
Ms Gillard has warned the death toll will rise.
“We are in a situation where, as a nation, we are grieving the loss of eight Australian lives,” she said.
“Seventy-two Australians are unaccounted for, and that means in Queensland and around the nation there are people who are frightened, people desperately waiting for news of loved ones.
“To those people who are bereaved, to those who are now waiting for news of their loved ones, my thoughts and my sympathies are now with you.
“The nation does need to brace itself for the fact that the death toll as a result of yesterday’s flash flooding is likely to rise.”
In the Lockyer Valley emergency service workers are battling heavy rain in a frantic effort to find those missing.
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