A person was killed and others were injured when a marquee collapsed on hundreds of people north of Edmonton on Wednesday.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that bad weather caused the tent to collapse around 5:30 PM at Tu Viện Tây Thiên, also known as the Westlock Meditation Centre or the Edmonton Buddhist Research Institute, south of Westlock.

Police did not know the total number of injured people, they only said that many of them were transported to local hospitals by emergency medical services.

A spokesperson for the centre told CTV News Edmonton that the person who died was not from Canada but was one of 400 attendees from around the world who were attending the retreat that began on Thursday.

Attendees live and pray as Buddhist monks and nuns, practicing monasticism, for 10 days during the retreat.

The spokesperson said the retreat would continue with a modified schedule, and the injured will be cared for at the centre as soon as they are discharged from the hospital.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Ministry of Health and Safety are investigating the tent collapse.

On Thursday morning, around 1,000 residents in the surrounding rural area were still without electricity after an outage occurred Wednesday afternoon or evening. In the legal area, crews were conducting "emergency repairs," according to Fortis Alberta's website. High winds were cited as a cause for at least one outage in the Gibbons area to the east. Power is expected to be restored between 1 and 3 PM, according to Fortis estimates.