The crash between a truck and a bus carrying elderly people sparks massive emergency response.
At least 15 people have died after a "very serious" road crash in the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.Police said the collision happened on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, two hours west of Winnipeg.In several tweets, the RCMP in Manitoba said it was responding to a "very serious... mass causality" collision, and that all of its resources, including its major crime unit, had been deployed to the scene.
Most of the seniors aboard the handi-transit vehicle were from Dauphin, Manitoba and the surrounding areas. The RCMP had asked motorists to avoid the area as several kilometres of the highway were closed near the crash site.John Proven described the scene as "shocking". "I have never seen an accident that big," he said.
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