By Dave Barry

Hwy 5

UPDATE: Coquihalla highway now open

Jun 24, 2019 | 1:48 PM

Update: The highway is open again.

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A main highway linking the Interior to the Lower Mainland has been closed. Argo Roads says traffic has been stopped on the Coquihalla highway, approximately 1 kilometre north of the Lac Le June overpass.

CFJC Today received reports of several vehicles off the highway following a hail storm. The storm struck around noon.

Ambulances have been seen travelling north from the scene, in the direction of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.

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