At least five people have died in Canada following a severe storm that battered parts of eastern Ontario and Quebec on Saturday afternoon, officials said Sunday.
The storm, with wind gusts of up to 132 kilometers per hour, also left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
Strong gusts of wind caused trees and power lines to collapse.
Hydro One, which supplies electricity to Ontario, said about 260,000 customers were without power this morning.
Hydro Ottawa, the electricity distributor for the Canadian capital, said power outages affected around 170,000 customers due to blackouts.
At least two people have died in Ottawa, while in Quebec, Gatineau police say a 51-year-old woman died when wind and bad weather sank a boat in the Ottawa River.
Two other people, including a 70-year-old woman, died in nearby Toronto from falling trees.
The town of Uxbridge, about 80 kilometers northeast of Toronto, declared a state of emergency following damage from the storm, which at times reached the intensity of a small tornado, according to the Weather Service canadian.
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