by AAP
An eight-year-old girl has spent the night clinging to a tree with her step mum after raging floodwaters in southeast Queensland claimed the life of her father.
The body of the girlâs 52-year-old dadâidentified as Steve Bottcher of Baupleâwas on Tuesday found at a property near Tiaro south of Gympie.
He is the second confirmed death from floods caused by remnants of Cyclone Seth dumping torrential rain on the region…