Four people died in violent thunderstorms in eastern Canada.
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- Nearly 900,000 homes in Ontario and Quebec without power after storms.
Due to the storm, the electricity in almost 900,000 households in the provinces of Ontario and Québec also fell out, as the operators Hydro One and Hydro-Québec announced on Saturday (local time). The police spoke of three fatalities and several injuries, and a media report spoke of another fatality.
A tree fell on a trailer in the Brant district south of Toronto, Ontario police said on Twitter. A man died inside the car. In the same area, an elderly woman who was walking during the storm was also killed by a tree. There was another fatality in the capital Ottawa, but the police did not comment on the circumstances.
In addition, a 50-year-old woman drowned in a suburb of Ottawa, as reported by the Canadian broadcaster CBC, citing the local police. Her boat capsized in a storm on the Ottawa River.
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