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Lisa Lapointe: British Columbia

Johnsons Landing Dept: JOHNSONS LANDING, B.C. - After another day of fruitless recovery efforts, officials in British Columbia said Wednesday that they were re-assessing their chances of finding two bodies which still remain missing a week after a massive mudslide hit the small community of Johnsons Landing, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Two bodies were recovered one on Sunday and another on Monday but Lapointe said work in those same areas has not yielded any results since and search and rescue personnel gather at a rallying point July 14, 2012 across the landslide in Johnsons Landing, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh B.C. Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said crews were focusing their search on the areas around the homes which were destroyed in the slide, where they thought they had the best chance of finding four missing people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.