"We are very concerned and watching very carefully," she said. "We already know it is going to be a record water level in Goondiwindi, the question now is whether that level will go over the edge of the levee bank." Police and Emergency Management Queensland remained hopeful the town will avoid flooding as a result. The death toll from the floods continues to rise, with the discovery of a 24-year-old man's body in Brisbane and another man found in Myall Creek near Dalby, taking the grim figure to 15, say Queensland Police. The Brisbane man died after being sucked into a drain in Durack but no further details were available about the Myall Creek tragedy.

Queensland Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts told a media briefing the total number of people missing was 61, with grave fears for another 12. Meanwhile, a taskforce of 200 police will patrol flood-affected properties in Brisbane and Ipswich to protect against looters as the big clean up begins. Earlier, Ms Bligh said the Brisbane victim was trying to do the right thing this morning by checking his father's property. "But he shouldn't have been in those waters and, unfortunately, it's claimed his life," she said. Please stay safe out there, it's a dangerous place right now. We've already had one death, let's not see any more as a result of Brisbane's flooding

The Premier implored residents to stay out of floodwaters. "Please stay safe out there; it's a dangerous place right now. "We've already had one death; let's not see any more as a result of Brisbane's flooding." Queensland State Disaster Co-ordinator, Deputy Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said the man's death was avoidable and that personal safety must be considered above all else. "People need to be patient going back to check properties.

"This is exactly what we were afraid would happen. It is avoidable and will be avoidable if people just wait a little while until those areas are made safe," Mr Stewart said. Ms Bligh has earned high praise for her raw and emotional performance, with her name rocketing up into Twitter's top 10 trending topics worldwide in the moments after her speech. Body in field Earlier today, the 13th victim of the flood was located, when a man's body was found in a field near Grantham. Authorities continue to search for bodies in Grantham and Withcott, two small towns in the Lockyer Valley that were among the communities hit by a devastating flash flood on Monday.

Meanwhile, the town of Condamine are still facing the prospect of rising waters. Ms Bligh said there were now 70 towns and cities across Queensland affected by flooding, "either because they have been inundated themselves or they have been cut off from major supply lines and isolated for weeks". "We now have to add in the 2.5 million people, who call south-east Queensland home, to that number." Mr Stewart said Queenslanders needed to brace themselves for more bad news.



"This is because we are now getting police and emergency services into areas of the Lockyer Valley [to search for bodies] where we haven't been able to get before," he said.



Meanwhile, 12 more people have been reported missing from Queensland's flood zone, many of them from two families. Authorities hold grave fears for the dozen, 11 of whom have been reported missing in the Murphys Creek area west of Brisbane.

Mr Stewart said earlier this morning 74 people were still missing. The body of a 50-year-old man has been found in a submerged car retrieved from a creek in the Ipswich suburb of Karrabin, but police have not yet determined the official cause of death. "Unfortunately, the sheer scale of this disaster in the Murphys Creek area would suggest to us that the people who are missing there - and there are two families who account for most of those 11 - they have not been located," Mr Stewart told the Nine Network. "We hope we can determine what has happened to them today." 'War scene'

Mr Stewart said searches were also continuing in Grantham and Withcott. "The problem we have is that the people have been washed out of their homes and some of the homes are actually destroyed, like bombs have gone off there. "It's a war scene in the Lockyer Valley today." Miracle survival Police said they still did not have details about the "miracle" survival of two people, who were believed to have been swept away by floodwaters in the Lockyer Valley but were found alive.

Ms Bligh said that in the Goondiwindi area, river levels were continuing to rise and authorities were "very, very concerned". "It is a town headed for its record ever flood and it is likely to peak overnight," she said. "We are keeping a very careful watch on the levee banks in Goondiwindi." Condamine is another community where river levels are rising. "We're quite happy that we've evacuated all the people from the Condamine township, and police will maintain a presence there," Inspector Terry Kajewski said.

"It may not reach quite the peak it did last week but will be in that vicinity, either tomorrow or on the weekend," Ms Bligh said. Water levels in all other systems, such as around Dalby and Chinchilla, were falling, Ms Bligh said. Long road to recovery Recovery co-ordinator Major General Mick Slater said it would be a long road back to normality. "We have the capacity in Australia to do this but we can't do it all at once and it's going to take a long time," he told the Seven Network.

"Yes it is a massive job and we've already begun the task ahead of us," General Slater said. "While the crisis is still going on down here in south-east Queensland, we are already up and engaging with the rural communities where the water has started to subside," he said.



"After people as the number one priority, there is a real focus to get the economy up and running." Rail and roads were crucial, General Slater said. "Our coal needs it, our grain needs it, our cattle industry needs it. All of our industries are relying on our transport infrastructure." The main roads department already had people out on the ground in rural Queensland, working to start repairing roads.

"It will take months and in some cases it may be several years before some of the less important, secondary roads are up and running," he said. In the past 24 hours until 5am, 7000 calls were made to the SES throughout the state, with 3000 calls from Brisbane and 630 from Ipswich, a Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said.



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