Update – Fatal incident, Caboolture
Police have confirmed the death of a man on Beerburrum Road, Caboolture overnight. This and the related release was initially reported as being on Dancers Rd, Caboolture.
Around 5.30pm yesterday, police received information that a vehicle had been swept away by flood waters.
Investigations revealed two separate vehicles were swept away by flood waters during the same incident.
Three people in the first vehicle were earlier pronounced deceased at the scene.
The second vehicle contained three people. Two passengers, a 21-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy managed to escape the vehicle.
A third person, a man aged 49-years-old who was the driver of the vehicle was initially unable to be located.
Police and emergency services searched overnight for the man.
At about 6am this morning the man was located deceased.
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