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A powerful rain storm has swept across southern British Columbia, unleashing floods and mudslides from Vancouver Island to the Alberta border, trapping motorists, closing major highways and forcing the evacuation of thousands.

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The mudslide on Highway 99 in British Columbia has killed multiple people and emergency crews are still searching the debris field south of Lillooet.

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“We’re hopeful to find people alive. But obviously that diminishes with time,” said David MacKenzie, the Pemberton District Search and Rescue manager.

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Emergency officials in Abbotsford, B.C., also announced a new evacuation order Tuesday affecting about 1,100 people in a rural area known as Sumas Prairie, just north of the U.S. border.

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