A woman is the first fatality in the landslide on Highway 99 after several days of heavy rain in the province of British Columbia, about 150 miles northeast of Vancouver, Canada.
The body was recovered Monday night by search and rescue personnel
.
The woman's family has already been notified, the Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed in a statement.
Work among the rubble continued on Tuesday, after being suspended due to difficult terrain conditions.
With waist-deep mud, authorities are still looking for more victims or vehicles that may have been swept away.
Two other people were reported missing
, Radio Canada (CBC) reported.
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“There is a significant amount of debris. This makes it very difficult for our teams,
”said David MacKenzie, search and rescue director for the Pemberton district.
Authorities indicated that on Monday
more than 200 people were taken by helicopter
to safety after being trapped in their vehicles after a landslide on Highway 7 that connects several communities.
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As the search focuses on the rubble,
the police have asked for information
from those who have not been able to communicate with their families or have witnessed the landslide.
Residents of the city of Merritt were ordered to leave their homes after city authorities reported that the sewage treatment plant had failed.
A group of people rescue cows that had been stranded in a flooded barn after storms in the province of British Columbia, CanadaJENNIFER GAUTHIER / REUTERS
The inhabitants of more than 1,000 homes were also evacuated in Abbotsford, a city on the border with the United States.
"It breaks my heart to see what is happening,"
lamented the mayor, Henry Braun, in statements quoted by the news agency The Associated Press.
Some routes, he said, remained impassable.
"One of our officers put on a life jacket and swam into a car that had overturned to rescue someone," explained Mike Serr, the Abbotsford Police Chief.
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In two stormy days, the roads received the amount of rain in all of November,
Braun pointed out.
Also the water of the Nooksack River, in the state of Washington, United States, left flooded farms on the Canadian side reported The New York Times.
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The Coast Guard rescued 10 people trapped in their homes in Washington state by helicopter where Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency on Monday.
Businesses, homes and roads remain flooded after up to six inches of rain fell in some areas over the weekend.