At least eight people have died and hundreds of thousands have been left without access to electricity. due to the storm that hit southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada, on Saturday.
Canadian authorities confirmed this Sunday that At least eight people have died in the country from the storm, local media reported.
Storm damage has led to cities in Uxbridge, north of Toronto, and Clarence-Rockland, east of Ottawato declare the state of emergencywhile hundreds of thousands of people in Ontario and Québec are still without electricity while the emergency teams work to restore services.
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For their part, the electricity providershave warned that some customers it could take days to get electricity back.
“Between the trees, the branches, the broken poles and the downed cables, it is really a very, very complicated cleanup,” said the spokeswoman for Hydro One, Tiziana Baccega Rosa.
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