Ottawa, April 7 (BNA): Two people were killed and more than a million were without power Thursday after a snowstorm battered two of Canada’s most populous provinces ahead of the weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed them down. down power lines.
Just under 1 million people had no electricity in Quebec and about 110,000 in Ontario as of 4 p.m. local time, according to Reuters.
The combined outages for both provinces exceeded at least 1.3 million earlier in the two provinces accounting for more than half of Canada’s total population of about 39 million.
Electricity providers in both provinces were working to restore power, but repairs were expected to take several days, meaning many Canadians could spend the Easter weekend in the dark.
A man was killed in Quebec when a tree fell on him, Prime Minister Francois Legault told a news briefing, and warned people to beware of live wires and vulnerable trees.
CTV News reported that another man died in eastern Ontario when he was struck by a fallen branch.
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