Sandbagging leads to death

Posted: 8:34 AM CDT Saturday, Jun. 25, 2011

REGINA — A Saskatchewan man has died while fighting floods, RCMP said Friday.

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REGINA — A Saskatchewan man has died while fighting floods, RCMP said Friday.

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REGINA — A Saskatchewan man has died while fighting floods, RCMP said Friday.

He had been sandbagging near the small community of Lampman late Wednesday afternoon when he collapsed. The man, 49, was taken to hospital in Estevan, Sask., but efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. His name has not been released.

Lampman Mayor Scott Greening didn’t want to comment on the identity of the man because people in the community want to respect his family.

“When you live in a community of 730 people, everyone knows everybody so it’s a horrible tragedy,” Greening said Friday. “We’ve had a lot of that here in the last couple of months with a couple vehicle accidents and things like that.”

Lampman, 170 kilometres southeast of Regina, has been fighting flooding from the swollen Souris River for the past week.

— Postmedia News