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Two workers are dead after an accident on a construction site on Gabriola Island on Tuesday.
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed it was called to the island Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for the service would only say “as we are early in our investigation to determine the facts, we are unable to provide any additional information.”
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Gabriola Island RCMP said a boom from a concrete pump-truck broke and landed on two workers at the construction site on Taylor Road.
How science solved the mystery of feet washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest
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On August 20, 2007, a 12-year-old girl spotted a lone blue-and-white running shoe a men’s size 12 on a beach of British Columbia’s Jedediah Island. She looked inside, and found a sock. She looked inside the sock, and found a foot.
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