The summer storm episode swept the provinces of Ontario and Quebec where more than 900,000 dwellings were without current on Saturday evening.
Le Monde with AFP
The Canadian authorities announced, Saturday, May 21, the death of four people in the east of the country, struck by violent thunderstorms which also deprived of nearly 900,000 households from the Ontario and Quebec provinces .
Ontario provincial police announced on Twitter three deaths and several injured. A person lost their lives during the fall of a tree in the middle of the day on the caravan which housed him, in the county of Brant, south of Toronto.
900,000 households without electricity
In this same region, and a few minutes later, a woman over 70 years old, moving on foot under the storm, was also crushed by a tree, according to the same source. Further north, in the federal capital of Canada, Ottawa, a person lost their lives, also because of the thunderstorms, but the local police, at a press conference, refused more precision.
A fourth person, a woman in their fifties whose boat capsized under the effect of the storm, drowned in the river separating Ottawa from its Quebec suburbs Gatineau, according to information collected by Radio-Canada with Local police.
In addition, nearly 900,000 households in eastern Canada were still deprived of electricity on Saturday evening: around 340,000 in Ontario and nearly 535,000 in Quebec, according to online accounts for local energy suppliers , Hydro One and Hydro-Québec.