Hurricane Fiona causes record-breaking damage in Atlantic Canada

OTTAWA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Hurricane Fiona is estimated to have caused 660 million Canadian dollars (about 528 million U.S. dollars) in insured damage in Canada, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said on Wednesday.

Fiona is the most costly extreme weather event ever recorded in Atlantic Canada, and the tenth largest in the country in terms of insured damages, the bureau said in a press release, quoting the "record-breaking" initial estimates from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc.