July 22, 2024

Gas leak causes fly-in community of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, to evacuate

The community of Sanikiluaq in Nunavut was evacuated Monday afternoon after an apparent gas leak just after 1:30pm Eastern. The fly-in Inuit community of more than 1,000 people is located on an island in the southeast corner of Hudson Bay.

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