10 people have died in the storms in eastern Australia

In recent days, storms and high winds have ravaged Australia’s Victoria and Queensland states, capsizing boats, causing flash floods and downing power lines.

The Government Bureau of Meteorology has warned coastal regions of Queensland are still at risk of dangerous storms, life-threatening flooding, giant hail and damaging winds.

The bodies of the women, aged 40 and 46, were found in the Mary River in the Queensland town of Gympie. They were among a trio of women swept into a flooded river by storm drains on Tuesday. Another 46-year-old woman managed to escape.

Eleven people were thrown into the ocean following their 12m yacht capsized while fishing near Brisbane.

On Wednesday, police said three men had drowned and eight survivors had been pulled from the water and rushed to hospital.

“It was a very tragic day because of the weather,” Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll told reporters.

Police say the body of a nine-year-old girl who went missing in flooding outside Brisbane has been found, while a 59-year-old woman was killed by a falling tree on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

The utility company Energex said it is in a hurry to restore power to more than 80,000 people. state house.

“How strong were those storms?” So much so that they broke many concrete poles holding high-voltage wires,” the company wrote on social networks.

Meanwhile, a woman was found dead in Victoria state late on Tuesday following flash floods flooded a regional campsite in Bakan, 350km east of the state capital Melbourne.

Another man died following a tree branch fell on him in Karingal, 180km east of Melbourne.