State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said in the first incident a man, woman and child died when their car was swept away by floodwaters in Caboolture, some 44 kilometres (27 miles) north of Brisbane.
“This is off-the-scale,” she said of the deluge in which 277 millimetres (almost 11 inches) of rain fell in the Caboolture area in just three hours on Friday afternoon.
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