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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Ismail Shakil

Two dead, over a million without power after ice storm hits Canada

A view shows the landscape after an ice storm, in Apple Hill, Ontario, Canada, April 6, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Natalie Rowe/via REUTERS

Two people died and more than a million were without power on Thursday after an ice storm hit Canada's two most-populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed down power lines.

Just under a million people did not have power in Quebec and about 110,000 in Ontario as of 4 p.m. (2000 GMT), according to Poweroutage.com. Outages combined for both provinces had crossed at least 1.3 million earlier in the day.

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