“He was found under a large tree branch after it fell on top of him … his death was declared at the scene,” Sgt. Provincial police said a man in his 60s died Thursday morning when he was crushed by a tree branch while attempting to cut down branches on his property in Les Coteaux, Que., southwest of Montreal.
“I can already confirm to you that there will be some, unfortunately, where it will go into the Easter long weekend, possibly Saturday, depending on some areas that are more complex,” Regis Tellier, a vice-president of operations and maintenance, told reporters. By Thursday at 5:30 p.m., about 887,000 customers were still without electricity from a high of more than one million.
Hydro-Quebec said it expected to restore power to between 300,000 and 350,000 clients by the end of the day, and to 70 or 80 per cent of affected customers by midnight Friday. MONTREAL - Hydro crews in Quebec worked on Thursday to restore power ahead of the Easter long weekend after a fierce ice storm left more than one million customers in the dark and led to the death of a man who was crushed by a tree.įreezing rain sent ice-laden tree branches crashing down onto power lines, streets and cars, knocking out power across large areas of southern Quebec, particularly around Montreal and to its south, in the Monteregie region.
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