landslide risk sends 9 families from homes

Nine families in Saint-Jude, Que., will have to wait several months to return to their homes after a riverbank collapsed on Wednesday.
The homes are in the same area, an hour's drive northeast of Montreal, where a family of four died last year after their home was swallowed by mud in a massive landslide.
On Sunday, a large section of one of the banks of the Salvail River eroded and collapsed into the water.
Saint-Jude Mayor Yves de Bellefeuille said town and provincial officials decided to evacuate the nine homes nearby as a precaution.
"Last year's loss of an entire family was not easy and we told ourselves that we did not want to lose any others. We aren't taking any chances," said Bellefeuille, mayor of the town of 1,000.


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