‘Heartbreaking’ clean-up of animal corpses as Canada floodwaters ebb

Floods and landslides in British Columbia devastated livestock in easily the costliest natural disaster in Canada's history'

Floods and landslides that battered the Canadian province of British Columbia last month killed hundreds of thousands of farm animals and forced nearly 15,000 people from their homes, new figures revealed, as officials described the scope of the devastation - and the challenges of recovery.

As many as 628,000 chickens, 420 dairy cattle and 12,000 pigs were killed by the floods. An estimated 3 million bees in 110 hives were also submerged.