
A crash between a bus and a semi-truck in rural Manitoba killed 15 people and sent 10 to the hospital with injuries, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The majority of the bus passengers were senior citizens from Dauphin, Manitoba, and areas nearby, officials said on a televised press conference. The crash occurred at a highway intersection near Carberry, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) west of the province’s largest city, Winnipeg.