Clean-up begins in flood-ravaged city

A volunteer army waded through stinking mud and drenched homes today in a massive clean-up operation as floodwaters receded in Australia’s third-largest city.

About 7,000 residents joined 600 military personnel in what was dubbed Salvation Saturday to shovel the muck and clean houses and businesses inundated by the Brisbane River earlier this week, another casualty of weeks of flooding across the state of Queensland.