Search becomes recovery operation for woman swept away in Cache Creek mudslide

In what police were describing as a recovery operation, search dogs, assisted by drones, spent Wednesday looking for the body of a  missing 67-year-old woman who was swept away in a car after a forceful mudslide near Cache Creek on Saturday.

“We are definitely switching into recovery mood with our search, so we are still looking for our victim at this point and trying to bring some closure to the family,” said Ashcroft RCMP Sgt. Kathleen Thain.

RCMP say Valerie Morris and her husband, Tom, were travelling in a group of six vehicles en route to Kamloops when a thunder and