Canada crash: 14 killed in Saskatchewan junior hockey team bus crash

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A crash involving a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team has killed at least 14 people and critically injured three others in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The Humboldt Broncos team, which has members aged between 16 and 21, were en route to a play-off game when their bus collided with a lorry on a rural road. 

The identities of the dead have not yet been released by officials.

Tributes have been paid across Canada, including by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who tweeted his condolences.

"I cannot imagine what these parents are going through," he wrote.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43679808

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Very sad, The youth hockey community is quite connected on both sides if the border.  This is going to have shockwaves in several communities.

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6 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Very sad, The youth hockey community is quite connected on both sides if the border.  This is going to have shockwaves in several communities.

Agreed, this is quite sad.  This is very similar to the plane crash in Russia that killed the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team and staff on board (if memory serves, there was just one crew member of the flight that survived).  One of those that died was Brad McCrimmon a former Detroit Red Wing who was head coach of the team.

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Definitely a tragic accident, I'm not even quite sure how or why these things keep happening, it's senseless. I have been fortunate to know some Cree folks from over in Saskatchewan for the last couple decades and they posted this gofundme on fb if anyone is interested:

 

https://www.gofundme.com/funds-for-humboldt-broncos

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Made me think of the Busby Babes and Munich.