SAGUENAY, Que. — Quebec provincial police say two bodies have been found by divers near the site of one of the landslides in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region triggered Saturday by a 'phenomenal' rainfall that washed away roads and caused flooding.
SAGUENAY, Que. — Quebec provincial police say two bodies have been found by divers near the site of one of the landslides in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region triggered Saturday by a"phenomenal" rainfall that washed away roads and caused flooding.
More than 50 residents of Rivière-Éternité were forced to leave their homes after a storm on Saturday dumped 130 millimetres of rain in the space of two hours. "What we understand of the event is that there was a first small landslide and people got out of the vehicle to clear the debris on the road," said Denis Demers, an engineer and expert on land movements."That's when the biggest part of the landslide happened, pushing them toward the Éternité River, which was a real torrent.”
Meanwhile, the Transport Department said it was trying to create a bypass around a collapsed section of the highway that runs through the town. The steep terrain and heavy rains caused the water to run off in streams, which in turn overflowed quickly, Demers said.
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