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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY April 1 - 15, 2018
Deadly Saskatchewan bus crash leaves Canada in mourning
Dayna Brons, the 25-
year-old trainer of the
Humboldt Broncos, is
the 16th victim, died in
Saskatoon hospital five
days after the team’s bus
crash on a Saskatchewan
highway.
Saskatchewan and the
rest of Canada are in grief.
A bus crash on a
Saskatchewan highway on April 6
left 16 people dead and 13 people
injured.
The bus carrying hockey players
with the Humboldt Broncos collided
with a transport truck.
The accident occurred about 200
kilometres northeast of Saskatoon
late in the afternoon.
The RCMP confirmed 29 people
were on the bus at the time of the
accident.
A
GoFundMe
crowdfunding
campaign, started by a resident of
Humboldt town, had raised more than
$9 million by April 11 to help players
and their families cope with expenses,
less than a week after coming online.
A spokesperson from GoFundMe said
they are not getting the 5% service
fee. All the donations will be given to
the families.
The Humboldt Broncos’ player
range in age from 16 to 21 years.
The junior hockey players were on
a road trip that was scheduled to take
just over two hours, heading to a playoff
game in Nipawin, Saskatchewan when who died.
the bus they were in and a transport
On April 9, Saskatchewan Health
truck collided.
Authority physician executive Dr. Mark
The RCMP has released the names Wahba told reporters that 12 patients
of all of the people who lost their lives remain in hospital.
in the crash.
The deceased included not only
On April 9, the province of players, who were from all three
Saskatchwan and the RCMP released prairie provinces, but also the team’s
a joint statement which said that one longtime coach, his assistant coach,
of the players originally reported to the bus driver, and two employees of
have died, Xavier Labelle, was in fact Humboldt’s FM radio station.
alive.
The driver of the truck that collided
Goaltender
Parker Tobin, originally
with the
bus
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