16 dead in bus crash involving junior hockey team
Fifteen people are dead and 14 are in hospital after a bus carrying a junior hockey team to a playoff game in Saskatchewan collided with a transport truck on a rural highway, according to RCMP.
The crash involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus occurred on Highway 35 near Gronlid, more than 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, late Friday afternoon.
The bus was T-boned by a transport truck, according to the president of the Nipawin Hawks, which was scheduled to play the Broncos in Game 5 of a semi-final Friday night. There were 29 people, including the driver, on board the bus at the time of the collision, RCMP said in a release.
Police said three of the people transported to hospital have injuries that are "critical in nature."
The team is part of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, which is open to players 20 years or younger. Thirteen of the Humboldt Broncos players are from Saskatchewan, 10 are from Alberta, and one is from Manitoba.
The Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team poses for a photo March 24, 2018, after winning the Bourgault Cup.
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