Wild weather across the eastern states over Christmas and Boxing Day has resulted in 10 fatalities.

QUEENSLAND

* The bodies of two women aged 46 and 40 were recovered near Gympie following a search of the Mary River

* Police said the women had been “exploring” in a storm drain when they were swept away by water on Boxing Day 

* Three men – a 48-year-old from Alexandra Hills, a 69-year-old from Meridan Plains and a 59-year-old from Tingalpa – died after a boat capsized in Moreton Bay on Tuesday afternoon with 11 passengers aboard

* The body of a nine-year-old girl was found following an extensive police search on Tuesday evening after she was lost in stormwater drains in Brisbane

* Christmas storms also accounted for one death on Monday, with a 59-year-old woman fatally struck by a falling tree on the Gold Coast

VICTORIA

* A woman and a man, who are yet to be identified, died after a campground was hit with flash flooding in regional Victoria just after 5pm on Boxing Day

* A 44-year-old Bunyip man was killed earlier on Tuesday after a branch fell on his property in Caringal, eastern Victoria