Canadian authorities on Tuesday recovered the body of a woman who was killed in mudslides brought by heavy rainfall in British Columbia over the weekend.
David MacKenzie, the Pemberton District Search and Rescue manager, said his team came across seven vehicles at the slide site on Highway 99 near the town of Lillooet and police were trying to determine if there were any other bodies.
"It is a significant amount of debris. It makes it very difficult for our search crews. The mud is up to their waist. I can't recall our team being involved in anything like this in the past," he said. A man, toddler and dog who were rescued by a volunteer in a boat after being stranded by high water due to flooding walk on high ground, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.
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