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October 31st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
A coronial inquest has heard how the bodies of Queensland flood victims were found, some more than 100 kilometres from where they went missing.
Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes is examining the flood-related deaths of 25 people in Toowoomba, the Lockyer Valley and Ipswich between January 10 and 17.
The inquest heard on Monday that on January 10 intense rainfall caused flash flooding of a scale never experienced before in Queensland’s southeast.
Superintendent Mark Kelly, who coordinated search efforts from January 12, said a team of more than 250 people painstakingly combed the state’s southeast in search of about 100 people considered missing in the days after the floods.
Cadaver dogs, police scuba divers and defence personnel were called in to search each area, up to six times in some cases.
Supt Kelly said crews waded through boggy creek beds on foot, cleared debris in the streets, trawled waterways by boat and participated in aerial searches.
The bodies of Sylvia Baillie, Robert Bromage, Llync-Chiann Clarke, Jean Gurr, Garry and Joselyn Jibson, Jessica Keep, Robert Kelly, Pauline Magner, Bruce Marshall, Sandra and Steven Matthews, Donna and Jordan Rice, Brenda and Joshua Ross, Katie and Selwyn Schefe, Reinskje Van der Werff, Bruce Warhurst, Jesse Wickman and Van Giang had all been recovered by January 23.
About 75 of the missing people were accounted for.
The bodies of Christopher John Face, James Cole Perry and Dawn Margaret Radke have never been found, but they too are presumed deceased.
Supt Kelly told the inquiry Selwyn Schefe’s body was found 101km downstream from where he went missing at Murphy’s Creek. His daughter Katie was found 5km downstream.
He explained that the Queensland Police Service (QPS), during a major crime or event, typically aimed for a search probability of detection (POD) of 90 per cent.
The inquest heard the international standard was 80 per cent and the QPS achieved a POD of 99 per cent after the Queensland floods.
The three-day inquest was shown harrowing footage on Monday of people trapped by rising water and cars being swept away.
The video timeline, prepared by the police taskforce responsible for investigating the deaths, detailed the flood’s path of destruction using maps, mobile phone images and television news footage.
The inquest heard how people clung to street signs, trees and objects such as ride-on lawn mowers, to avoid being washed to their deaths.
Flood survivors sat in the back of the court listening as triple-zero emergency telephone calls made by their deceased loved ones were played.
Mr Barnes will determine when and how the flood victims died and will examine whether there has been an increase in suicides as a result of the floods.
The author of an Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention report, commissioned by the state coroner’s office, will give evidence to the inquiry on Wednesday.
The scope of the inquest has been reduced so as to not intrude on the terms of reference of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry.
The commission, which delivered its interim report in August and will release its final recommendations in February, is investigating the adequacy of early warning systems, emergency preparation and the response during and after the disaster.
About 70 per cent of the state flooded last summer, killing a total of 35 people.
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