2023-07-22 22:22:23
Four people, including two children, are missing this Saturday following floods caused by torrential rains in the province of Nova Scotia, in eastern Canada. The two children were traveling in a vehicle which was submerged. And the other three occupants managed to escape, said a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), adding that searches were underway to find them.
Two other people are missing in similar circumstances, the spokeswoman added. She did not specify the exact location of these two separate incidents, to prevent the public from interfering with the search. Torrential rains that have battered the province since Friday evening have cut roads, flooded homes and threatened to cause a dam to burst, as fires remain out of control in several parts of the country.
Evacuation orders
The inhabitants of the Windsor region, about sixty kilometers northwest of Halifax, the provincial capital, received an evacuation order in the middle of the night because of the risk of the dam breaking. But the floodgates of the work were opened on Saturday morning to reduce the pressure and the situation is “under control”, for the mayor of Windsor, Abraham Zebian.
Images from television or social media showed roads turned into torrents and many abandoned cars. Residents of the province have been told to stay at home as many roads are impassable. Some 70,000 customers of electricity supplier Nova Scotia Power were without power in the early morning, but the number had fallen to 6,000 by the afternoon.
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