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CP NewsAlert: First victim of N.S. floods identified as member of local rock band

Jul 27, 2023 | 12:08 PM

HALIFAX — A man who died during a torrential rainstorm last weekend in rural Nova Scotia has been identified as Nicholas Anthony Holland.

Holland was one of four people, including two small children, who went missing early Saturday after the vehicles they were in were swept off a road and submerged as they fled their homes.

His former partner Julie Giffin Holland confirmed to The Canadian Press that the 52-year-old, a member of the local rock band Hogtooth, died trying to escape the floodwater.

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