HALIFAX — Nova Scotia RCMP are expected to provide an update today on the search for a youth who went missing on July 22 when four people were swept away by rushing floodwaters following a historic storm.
The Mounties, who have scheduled a news conference in Windsor, N.S., believe two vehicles were knocked off the road into a hayfield in Brooklyn, N.S., by rapidly rising water during a storm that dumped up to 250 millimetres of rain on parts of the province.
Last week, searchers recovered the bodies of two six-year-old children — identified in funeral home notices as Natalie Hazel Harnish and Colton Sisco — and 52-year-old Nicholas Holland, who was travelling with the missing youth.
Three other people who had been travelling with the children in a pickup truck made it to safety.
Police said Friday they would continue the search for the missing youth through the weekend.
The flooding that resulted from massive downpours damaged dozens of roads and bridges across the province.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2023.
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