Sydney, Feb. 5 -- A second person has died in floodwaters in northeastern Australia, with residents warned to expect more heavy rainfall over the coming days.
Police in Australia's state of Queensland said in a statement on Tuesday that the body of an 82-year-old woman was found in cane fields near the town of Ingham on Tuesday morning.
The woman was located at about 11 a.m. local time by a neighbor after the floodwaters receded.
It is the second confirmed death in the flooding crisis in Queensland's North Tropical Coast region on Australia's far northeast coast.
Earlier, a 63-year-old woman from Ingham, one of the hardest-hit towns in the affected area between the cities of Townsville and Cairns, died on Sunday when an emergency se...