Overview
- Police divers retrieved two deceased persons on Thursday from a silver Subaru Forester found on Kilkivan Tansey Road near McArthur Road at Kilkivan, west of Gympie.
- The pair are believed to be a 26-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman from China who failed to arrive after setting out from Brisbane for Mundubbera to pick fruit.
- Formal identification is underway as the forensic crash unit and specialist officers examine how the vehicle entered floodwaters, with police indicating it may have gone off a bridge or been washed off the road.
- Families have been notified and police are working with the Chinese Consulate in Brisbane to assist relatives following the recovery.
- The deaths occurred during a wider flood emergency that peaked at 7.4 metres on the Burnett River in Bundaberg, where clean-up continues as authorities also search for a man missing from a houseboat and prepare inland communities such as Longreach for rising waters.