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Tidal marketplace8/23/2023 ![]() One landslide buried a house in Buguias town in Benguet province, killing a mother, her child and two other children and injuring two other people. It was the river choosing to take a different path.MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Typhoon Doksuri lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain Wednesday, leaving at least six people dead and displacing thousands of others as it blew roofs off houses, flooded low-lying villages and triggered dozens of landslides, officials said. “That created the massive current across the road. “The river discovered, as rivers will, that it could escape through those poor peoples’ property and outflow into the hay fields,” he said. He knows the area well and speculated that the Meander River became a torrent and met resistance from a rising tide. “Our own worries about damaged driveways and such just dissipated and all we care about now is the kids and the other lost people … For me personally, living here all these years, there’s never been anything as devastating as this.” “We gradually became more aware over Saturday morning that something terrible had happened down on the corner (at the home where the children were last seen),” he said in an interview on his front porch. Much of the search was being carried out on hay lands that Johnston owns. Paul Johnston, a local veterinarian, said that when he woke up on Saturday he walked down his driveway and saw the water rushing knee deep along the road. Helicopters could be seen flying overhead. Traffic was being diverted away from the search scene just off the Meander River, a winding tidal river that flows near the locations where the missing people were last seen about 55 kilometres northwest of Halifax. “We’re going to stay positive until we have some closure here,” Zebian said in an interview. The goal, he said, was to get the water level low enough that people could search the area by foot. “We can rebuild roads and bridges and buildings, but we can’t bring people back, and the legacy for these floods will be the incredibly tragic loss of life,” he said.Įarlier in the day, industrial pumps steadily emptied the field as searchers scoured the area for the missing people.Ībraham Zebian, mayor of West Hants Regional Municipality, was at the site and said search teams were pumping more than 94,000 litres of water a minute from the field. At least 50 roads sustained significant damage. Provincial officials said 25 bridges had been affected, with 19 damaged and six destroyed. Frizzell said the second vehicle, also empty, was not far from the truck.Ī series of thunderstorms that began Friday and stretched into the following day dumped up to 250 millimetres of rain on several parts of the province, washing out roads and bridges and causing widespread damage. An RCMP dive team recovered an unoccupied pickup truck Saturday in more than two metres of water and said it was believed to be the vehicle the children were travelling in. He also confirmed the search of the submerged field had turned up a second missing vehicle. “The second remains … were near a tidal system or near water, so we have reason to believe they most likely moved along those waterways,” said Frizzell, who couldn’t provide an estimate of the distance. There have been no other reports of missing people from the flooding, he said. Rob Frizzell said police are working with the medical examiner to identify the remains, but investigators have reason to believe they belong to one of the other three people missing. A man and a youth travelling in a second vehicle in the area were also reported missing. Police said the children were with three other people who managed to escape. Police said they recovered the body of a 52-year-old man from Windsor, N.S., in the main search area northwest of Halifax, while the second person’s remains were found “by civilians” on shore in a tidal area in the neighbouring county.įour people, including two children, were reported missing on Saturday when the two vehicles they were travelling in were submerged in the regional municipality of West Hants. ![]() ![]() Teams conducting a grim search of a flooded Nova Scotia field located the body of a missing man Monday, and the RCMP confirmed the recovery of what they believe are remains of a second person swept away when torrential rain hit the province on the weekend.
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