Video: Family’s bodies found after sinkhole swallows home

Parents and kids were in basement when landslide hit

Published: 12/05/2010

THE bodies of all four members of a family who went missing after their house was swallowed by a gaping sinkhole have been found, authorities in Canada revealed.

The family was in the basement watching an ice hockey game when a massive landslide hit in Saint-Jude, north east of Montreal.

Richard Prefontaine, his wife Lynne Charbonneau and daughters Anais, 9, and Amelie, believed to be 11, were cheering on the Montreal Canadiens in their Stanley Cup play-off game against the Pittsburgh Penguins when the landslide tore a hole more than four times the size of a football field into Saint-Jude.

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