Young was detected dead after being swept away by rapids at Nova Scotiaa province on its coast Canada to Atlantic oceanwhich were hit in the previous 48 hours by the remnants of Storm Beryl, police said on Friday.

The victim was playing with friends yesterday Thursday in her park Wolfvillea mixed town of 5,000 inhabitants, when a flash flood occurred, the young man was swept away by the waters and ended up in a “ditch full of water”, said the authorities, who did not specify his age.

Very heavy rainfall was recorded “within a very short period of time”, he explained Ed Nugent tof the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during a press conference.

The body was found hours later: the water level and darkness complicated the work of search and rescue teams.

Yesterday was a “disastrous day for our province”, commented Mr tim houston, the local prime minister in her province Nova Scotia. “Infrastructure was massively damaged — and we will restore it, but it’s impossible to replace the loss of a young person’s life,” he added.

Firefighters had to intervene in several other locations in the province to pull people out of their homes that were submerged in water, while at least one road bridge was flooded. Yesterday many roads were impassable.

According to Environment Canada, over 100mm of rain fell in a few hours. A year ago, the same province mourned the loss of four lives, including these two young children, due to record floods.

After battering the Caribbean and Venezuela as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, killing at least 10, Beryl caused eight more deaths and widespread damage in the US.