The bus carrying 25 people had left a senior center in Manitoba, Canada.
This photo shows the scene of a crash that has closed a section of the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Manitoba on Thursday, June 15, 2023. 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. Kim Armstrong, the administrator of the Dauphin senior center, said the bus left from the senior center Thursday morning. “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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