Fourteen killed in Canadian hockey team bus crash

A bus holding a number of North america younger tennis gamers collided on Saturday with a semi-trailer on a non-urban road in Saskatchewan, eliminating 14 people, North america press revealed stating cops.

Fourteen more were harmed -- such as three seriously -- in the occurrence relating to the Humboldt Broncos team bus, which was going northern for a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey Group playoff game against the Nipawin Hawks, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix revealed.

Royal North america Installed Police examiner Ted Monroe had said at a news meeting delayed Saturday that there were "fatalities among the travelers on the bus" and "a number of serious injuries".

"It is a significant occurrence, we had a tractor movie trailer and a bus conflict," Monroe informed journalists, decreasing to go into further details about the sufferers.

Police said the occurrence took place about 28 miles northern of Tisdale, Saskatchewan as the bus was traveling on road 35.

"This is much larger than anyone can begin to think about," Broncos team chief executive Kevin Garinger informed the North america broadcaster CBC. "We are just in complete surprise and surprise at the loss that´s dropped upon us."

The Broncos team consists of 24 gamers, all from North america, with the newest older 16 and most well-known 21.

"It´s a dreadful occurrence, my God," said Darren Opp, chief executive of the Nipawin Hawks tennis team. "It´s very, very bad."

Canadian Primary Reverend Bieber Trudeau indicated his unhappiness at the dreadful occurrence such as such young sportsmen.

"I cannot think about what these mother and father are going through, and my heart goes out to everyone impacted by this dreadful disaster, in the Humboldt team and beyond," Trudeau had written on Tweets.

The Saskatchewan league is a bird birdfeeder system for higher levels of tennis with many finishing to play at US and North america universities and major younger league level, while some go on to the Nationwide Hockey Group. Former NHL gamers like defenseman Frank Chelios, goalie Ron Hextall, forward Rod Brind´Amour and area of popularity goalie Glenn Hall all took part in the SJHL.

Friday´s critical beat cut back remembrances of a single vehicle bus occurrence in Dec 1986, also in Saskatchewan, that murdered four members of the European Hockey Group Instant Present Broncos.

A funeral was placed on the side of the road at the site of the occurrence, about four miles eastern of Instant Present.

The Instant Present Broncos indicated their condolences.

"Humboldt Broncos with a weight of large in our ideas and hearts and ideas this evening," the team said on Tweets.

Former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy, who live through when the Instant Present bus skidded off the road in wintry circumstances, also sent an email of support.

"Sending all my head and wishes to those impacted with the @HumboltBroncos bus occurrence," Kennedy said.