Brisbane: In latest reports, a woman is believed to have been swept away into a swollen river in Queensland.
Rivers are still overflowing into low-lying towns of north-east lands in Australia.
Close to 200,000 people have been affected by rising floodwaters.
Queensland Premier has warned that drenched communities could be underwater for more than a week. cleanup efforts are expected to cost billions of dollars.
A woman swept from the road in her car has become the first victim of massive flooding in the Australian state of Queensland, where at least two more persons have gone missing.
The 41-year-old woman's body was found two kilometres downstream in the Leichardt River in Queensland's Gulf Country, local media reported on Sunday.
She had disappeared on Saturday night when the car she was travelling in was washed off a causeway at Floraville near Burketown.
Authorities were also searching for a 38-year-old man in the flooded Boyne River, south of Gladstone, in central Queensland.
Water police, local surf lifesavers, volunteer marine rescuers and two helicopters were combing the area for the missing man.
In Rockhampton, authorities suspended the search for another man feared missing in Fitzroy river.
Queensland authorities are appealing to people to stay out of floodwaters.
Twenty towns and cities have been affected by the flooding that engulfed an area with the size of New South Wales.
It may be days before some evacuees can return to their homes in the central Queensland town of Emerald. Floodwaters are receding in Emerald but the city remains divided by the swollen Nogoa River.
With PTI inputs
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