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The RCMP says a body found in Advocate Harbour, N.S., is believed to be that of a youth who went missing during torrential flooding in Nova Scotia almost two weeks ago.
Police say they recovered the body along the shore of Advocate Harbour around 10:35 a.m. Tuesday.
“We’re working with the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service to positively identify the remains,” Superintendent Sean Auld, the Nova Scotia RCMP’s Support Services Officer, said during a news conference in Windsor, N.S., Wednesday morning,
“But at this time, we believe they are those of the youth who was reported missing on July 22 as a result of extreme flooding in West Hants.”
Four people went missing in West Hants after two vehicles were swept away by rapidly rising water during the storm that dumped up to 250 millimetres of rain in some areas.
The bodies of 52-year-old Nicholas Anthony Holland, six-year-old Natalie Hazel Harnish and six-year-old Colton Sisco were discovered on July 24 and 25.
Holland and one of the children were found in the primary search site, a flooded hayfield in Brooklyn, and the other child’s remains were found by civilians at a nearby coastal area.
Police have said the missing youth was travelling with Holland when the vehicle they were in was pushed off the road into a nearby flooded field.
The extensive search for the missing youth under the age of 18 was temporarily suspended Monday to allow remaining water to drain from the search site.
This is a developing story. More to come…
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Lyndsay Armstrong
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