About two children who were on Tuesday swept away in massive flooding in eastern Canada have been found dead, raising the death toll to three, authorities have confirmed.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that the two kids were inside a car that was carried away while its occupants attempted to evacuate their Nova Scotian house on Saturday.
Over the weekend, three months’ worth of rain dropped in a matter of hours, wiping out cars, bridges, and highways.
‘They were leaving their residences trying to get to a safe area and that’s when they were struck with the storm surge,’ a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spokeswoman said.
‘They were leaving and were kind of pushed off of the road into a field that then quickly flooded with water.’
Three other people in the car managed to escape.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that rescuers found one of the children on Tuesday and the other on Monday, the RCMP said.
In a separate incident, a man and a teenager disappeared under similar circumstances. The body of the 52-year-old was found Monday, and the teenager remains missing.
The regional municipality of Halifax, the province’s capital, said Tuesday that the water was finally starting to recede, though some areas were still flooded.
In another report, no fewer than 30 people, including 10 soldiers battling the flames, have been killed by wildfires raging across Algeria which have also forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes along the country’s Mediterranean coastal region.
The reports of the deaths came on Monday after temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit) in parts of the North African country.
According to the interior ministry of Algeria, 97 fires spread across 16 provinces and were exacerbated by ferocious winds and scorching heat.
The ministry revised an initial death toll of 15 victims to at least 34, including 10 soldiers, as the fires tore through residential districts.