The search for two people swept away by a landslide this weekend in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is continuing today.
Rescue teams resumed looking for a man and woman in their 40s missing in Rivière-Éternité, Que., about 260 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
The search operation is focused along a 1.8-kilometre stretch of the small, winding Éternité River, on the shore and in the water.
Quebec provincial police say the operation is being slowed by a number of factors including debris from the landslide and extreme heat.
More than 50 people were forced to leave their homes after a storm on Saturday dumped 130 millimetres of rain over two hours on the area, washing away roads and triggering flooding….