The Quebec coroner’s workplace is confirming the id of the girl killed in a landslide within the province’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean area final weekend.
Pascale Racine, 44, was one among two individuals who died final Saturday in Rivière-Éternité, Que., about 260 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
Earlier within the week, authorities recognized the opposite sufferer killed after heavy rains triggered landslides and flooding as 48-year-old Pascal Heon.
Crews start repairs to a washed-out part of Highway 170 in Rivière-Éternité, Que., Sunday, July 2, 2023. Climate change may result in extra landslides in Quebec, just like the one which killed two folks on Saturday, mentioned a researcher who research the phenomenon.
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Police divers discovered the 2 our bodies on Tuesday night.
A provincial engineer informed a briefing the victims have been attempting to clear particles from a small landslide off a highway when a bigger landslide hit. A person who was with them managed to cling to a tree and was rescued.
More than 50 residents of the city have been pressured to go away their properties after the storm dumped 130 millimetres of rain within the house of two hours.
