Girl (9) among 10 people dead as Australian states hit by bad weather

A nine-year-old girl is among those who died after she disappeared in a flooded stormwater drain

A fallen tree lays across a camping trailer near the Gold Coast, Australia Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. At least nine people have died in wild weather in the Australian eastern states of Queensland and Victoria, officials said on Wednesday. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)

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At least 10 people have died as bad weather hit the Australian eastern states of Queensland and Victoria.

Three men, aged 48, 59 and 69, were killed after a boat with 11 people aboard capsized in rough weather in Moreton Bay off the south Queensland coast on Tuesday, police said.