HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) – Police said Monday they had found the body of a missing man and what is believed to be the body of a second person swept away in severe flooding that hit Nova Scotia over the weekend.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it had recovered the body of a 52-year-old man from Windsor, Nova Scotia, in a search area northwest of Halifax, with a second body found on a low tide beach in a neighboring county.
Two cars carrying four people, including two children, were reported missing in the West Haunts municipality on Saturday.
A series of thunderstorms that began on Friday and continued into the next day brought up to 250 millimeters (10 inches) of rain to several parts of the state, causing widespread damage. Six bridges were destroyed, 19 damaged and at least 50 roads severely damaged, state officials said.
Sergeant Rob Frissell said police are working with the coroner to identify a second set of bodies, but investigators believe they belong to one of the other three missing.
Industrial pumps steadily emptied the waterlogged fields as search parties searched for the missing.
On Saturday evening, a police dive team recovered an unmanned pickup truck that was submerged in more than 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) of water and said it was believed to be the vehicle with children in it.
Police said the children were with three others who escaped. A man and a young man who were in a second car in the vicinity are also missing.
