Search continues for N.S. youth who went missing during torrential flash flooding
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A multi-agency search continued Wednesday for a missing youth who was in a car that was submerged by floodwaters early Saturday morning in West Hants, N.S.
A multi-agency search continued Wednesday for a missing youth who was in a car that was submerged by floodwaters early Saturday morning in West Hants, N.S.
The bodies of three others who went missing in the same area amid the torrential rain storms have been recovered.
A 52-year-old Windsor man and a child were found dead at the RCMP’s primary search site in the community of Brooklyn, where police say a “lake’s worth” of water has been diverted out of the field by industrial high flow pumps.
The remains of another missing child were found in the coastal area of a nearby community.
The two children were travelling with three other people who managed to escape when the vehicle they were in was submerged in rushing waters.
Search efforts for a missing youth under the age of 18 will continue until the primary search site and nearby coastal areas have been thoroughly explored, police said Wednesday. The youth was travelling with the 52-year-old man.
West Hants RCMP Sgt. Rob Frizzell said Tuesday two sets of people, who are not connected to each other, were evacuating the area on a road off Highway 14 around 4 a.m. Saturday, when rushing flood waters pushed their vehicles — a large pickup truck and an SUV — off the road and into a nearby field.
