Four family members are dead after a construction project turned tragic over the weekend in Quebec’s Bas-St-Laurent region, provincial police say.
Investigators said two men and two women were working on a new house atop a scissor lift on Saturday in St-Léandre, a rural municipality of fewer than 400 people, when the device toppled for an unknown reason.
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“The occupants fell several meters. On the spot, we found the death of one of them,” said provincial police spokesman Stéphane Tremblay, referring to a 27-year-old man.
He said three others were badly injured and were taken to hospital but died during the night.
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Tremblay confirmed Sunday that the four people were part of the same family.
The victims include a 27-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman from St-Léandre and a 53-year-old woman and 60-year-old man from Rivière-du-Loup.
Officials said a coroner’s inquest is underway, while an investigation by Quebec’s workplace health and safety board aims to determine whether an equipment breakdown occurred.
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