Canadian police say a bus carrying seniors to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the province of Manitoba, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more.
TORONTO — A bus carrying seniors to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba Thursday, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police said.
RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson said “as of right now the drivers of both the bus and truck are alive and in hospital.” He did not say if they were among the 10 listed as injured. The dead were mainly seniors. A family support center has been set up at a Lutheran Church in Dauphin, Manitoba for relatives. Police said the people on the bus were from Dauphin and the areas around it.A spokesperson for the Sand Hills Casino in Carberry said the van had been scheduled to arrive there later in the day.
“It’s huge to lose so many individuals of our community and of course it is shocking. We just pray for those that are surviving,” she said.The truck company said in a statement it was heartbroken about the crash but had limited details about what happened.
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