The Canadian authorities announced on Saturday the death of eight people following violent storms in the east of the country.

Nearly 900,000 homes in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec are also experiencing power outages.

Severe thunderstorms also hit eastern Canada on Saturday, causing bad weather that resulted in the death of eight people and nearly 900,000 homes losing power in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. On Twitter, the Ontario police recorded three deaths and several injuries, victims of a violent summer storm. A person lost his life when a tree fell around midday on the trailer he was sheltering in Brant County, south of Toronto.

In the same area and minutes later, a woman over seventy years old, who was walking in the storm, died due to a tree, according to the same source. To the north, in the federal capital Ottawa, a person lost his life due to thunderstorms, but the local police, during a press conference, declined to provide further details.