Brisbane floods clean-up under way

THE swamped Australian city of Brisbane yesterday began the heartbreaking task of cleaning up after its worst floods in decades, as searchers made the grisly discovery of another body.

Waters drained from the country’s third-largest city to expose the full horror of the devastation wrought when the Brisbane River burst its banks, with search teams recovering the body of a woman in the nearby Lockyer Valley.

Brisbane residents nervously returned to see what remained of their homes and businesses, as the muddy brown soup that had covered buildings up to their roofs dropped to reveal its aftermath.