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Fifteen people involved with the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were travelling on a bus Friday evening, were killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer. Fourteen others were seriously injured.
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Fifteen people involved with the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were travelling on a bus Friday evening, were killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer. Fourteen others were seriously injured.
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Fifteen people involved with the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team who were travelling on a bus Friday evening, were killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer. Fourteen others were seriously injured.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
Humboldt Broncos defenceman Xavier Labelle is shown in this undated team photo. A defenceman for the Humboldt Broncos is among 15 killed in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan. Labelle was confirmed dead by his brother Isaac Labelle in an Instagram post.CP
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Humboldt Broncos defenceman Stephen Wack is shown in this undated team photo. A defenceman for the Humboldt Broncos is among 15 killed in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan. Alicia Wack, cousin of Stephen Wack, told The Canadian Press he did not survive when a bus carrying the junior hockey team collided with a truck on an eastern Saskatchewan highway Friday.CP
Humboldt Broncos right winger Evan Thomas is shown in this undated team photo. A forward in his first season with the Humboldt Broncos is among the 15 people killed after a collision between a truck and a bus carrying the junior hockey team in Saskatchewan. Evan Thomas, who was 18 and from Saskatoon, was on the bus as it travelled to a playoff game Friday in Nipawin. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Saskatchewan Junior Hockey LeagueCP
Humboldt Broncos centre Jaxon Joseph is shown in this undated team photo. One of the Humboldt Broncos top forwards Jaxon Joseph is among the 14 dead following a collision between a bus and a transport truck in Saskatchewan. The winger's death was confirmed by the Surrey Eagles, his former team in the British Columbia Hockey League. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Saskatchewan Junior Hockey LeagueCP
SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
Humboldt Broncos left winger Conner Lukan is shown in this undated team photo. A forward from Alberta is among the 15 people killed after a collision between a truck and a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in Saskatchewan. Conner Lukan, 21, of Slave Lake was on the bus as it travelled to a playoff game Friday in Nipawin.CP
Humboldt Broncos centre Logan Schatz is shown in this undated team photo. The captain of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team is among 14 dead following a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan. Logan Schatz died along with head coach Darcy Haugan when the junior hockey team's bus collided with a truck on the way to a playoff game in northeastern Saskatchewan Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Saskatchewan Junior Hockey LeagueCP
Humboldt Broncos right wing Logan Hunter is shown in this undated team photo. Hunter's death was confirmed by his former team, the St. Albert Raiders in his Alberta hometown. The organization's president, Kevin Porter, said he heard the news from Hunter's mother. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Saskatchewan Junior Hockey LeagueGOLDEN WEST MEDIA
Tyler Bieber, who was the team's play-by-play announcer, died in Friday's crash. He worked for Manitoba-based Golden West Broadcasting.SUBMITTED
Brody Hintz, 18, a stats keeper for the Brocos, died in Friday's crash northeast of Saskatoon. He was just beginning his broadcasting career for Golden West Broadcasting, which is based in Altona, Man.The wreckage of a fatal crash outside of Tisdale, Sask., is seen Saturday, April, 7, 2018. A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team crashed into a truck en route to Nipawin for a game Friday night killing 14 and sending over a dozen more to the hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan HaywardHUMBOLDT BRONCOS
Matthieu Gomercic suffered several lacerations, an injured jaw and broken shoulder, according to Donna Mikkola.CP
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Winnipeg Jets and the Chicago Blackhawks come together at centre ice wearing Broncos on the back of their jerseys for a moment of silence for the Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims before NHL action in Winnipeg on Saturday, April 7, 2018.CP
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Members of the 1886 Humboldt Knights of Columbus prepare and serve a pancake breakfast at St. Augustine Church in Humboldt, Sask., on Sunday, April 8, 2018. 15 people travelling with the Humboldt Broncos SJHL hockey team are dead, and many injured when their bus was collided with a semi-trailer 30 kilometres north of Tisdale, Sask.
