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    14 dead in bus crash

    ‘You are in Saskatchewan's hearts': 14 confirmed dead in junior hockey team bus crash


    The RCMP confirmed 14 fatalities and 14 injuries in a collision involving a junior hockey team's bus in Saskatchewan on Friday, with rescue efforts ongoing late into the evening.

    Police say there were 28 people on the bus at the time of the crash, including the driver. Three of the injuries are critical in nature. RCMP would not confirm whether the deceased were players or coaches as they work with partner agencies to notify and support families...

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...sask-1.4609554

    There are now 15 confirmed dead, including the head coach and team captain. The team is Junior A, so ages 17-20, I believe... western Canada is reeling. These kids are from all over as the players are recruited and considered some of the best with NHL goals and dreams.

    Please pray for the families and communities affected.

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    So sorry! Praying.

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    Oh my! - How tragic - Praying that God will comfort the families and survivors, as only He can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Romans828 View Post
    Oh my! - How tragic - Praying that God will comfort the families and survivors, as only He can.
    Well said.

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    Apparently President Trump called Prime Minister Trudeau to express his condolences.

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    Also Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip sent a message of support.

    https://www.royal.uk/message-queen-a...crash-canada-0

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    https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada...igil-1.3876061

    Hundreds honour Humboldt Broncos at vigil

    HUMBOLDT, Sask. -- Hundreds gathered to remember 15 people who died when the Humboldt Broncos' bus crashed late last week and heard a heart-rending recollection from the team chaplain who happened upon the gruesome scene and heard sounds of the dying.
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    "We travelled up and arrived at the scene ... and walked up on a scene I never want to see again," Pastor Sean Brandow told a vigil held Sunday night in the Saskatchewan junior hockey team's home arena. "To sounds I never want to hear again."
    He said he felt at a loss as emergency crews worked to save those they could. And then it got worse.
    "To go to the hospital and walk around and just hear groaning and panic and fear and distress and pain and just nothing but darkness," he said.
    "To sit and hold the hand of a lifeless body ... This is the valley of darkness. All I saw was darkness and hurt and anguish and fear and confusion. And I had nothing. Nothing. I'm a pastor, I'm supposed to have something."
    Brandow encouraged those gathered to lean on their faith as they struggle to deal with the tragedy.
    People laid flowers in a circle around centre ice in the rink as family and friends of players listened to prayers and hymns.
    Pictures of the dead and injured were placed on stands at one end of the arena.
    Nick Shumlanski, the only one of the 14 injured in the crash to be released from hospital, attended the vigil wearing his white, green and yellow team jersey, an obvious bruise under his left eye.
    The Humboldt Broncos were on their way to a playoff game Friday in Nipawin when the bus carrying the team collided with a semi.
    Sunday's vigil took place the same night as Game 6 was scheduled to be played with the Nipawin Hawks in the Humboldt rink. There was a moment of silence at the time the game was supposed to start.
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended the vigil along with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. Trudeau visited survivors of the crash in a Saskatoon hospital earlier in the day.
    Family and friends also shared more stories Sunday of their memories of those lost and unbreakable bonds forged by a love for hockey.
    More names were confirmed of those killed early Friday evening at an east-central Saskatchewan highway intersection.
    Scott Thomas remembered his 18-year-old son, defenceman Evan Thomas, as a strong athlete. He played both hockey and baseball and was a good student. But he was a teammate first.
    "He liked sports, but at times I think he tolerated sports so he could be a teammate," the father said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press. "He loved his teammates and I think that was more important to him than the actual sport he was playing.
    "He loved those boys. He really loved those boys."
    Thomas said that before Christmas, he spoke with the team's head coach, Darcy Haugan, who was also killed in the crash, about whether there would be any trades for the second half of the season.
    "Darcy just said, 'You know, Scott, there's something about this group of kids that's special,"' he recalled. "He didn't want to make any changes because they are such a great group of kids."
    Player Logan Boulet, 21, had been on life support until his organs were donated, cousin Julie Kindt said on Facebook.

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    It's been announced that one of the bodies was incorrectly identified.

    http://nationalpost.com/news/local-n...b-a87a99cf6e95

    How it happened remains unclear. In the fog of overwhelming grief, even the unfathomable becomes possible, it seems.

    Maybe it was the dyed blonde hair the Humboldt Broncos players were sporting in a collective show of playoff unity. Perhaps it was the similar builds of the players involved. Maybe the damage suffered in Friday’s bus crash made it difficult to recognize some of the young men onboard. It might have been a combination of little sleep and endless tears.

    Two Broncos players — one who survived Friday’s bus crash and one who died — were incorrectly identified by family and the provincial coroner as the other. Xavier Labelle, an 18-year-old from Saskatoon, was initially identified as one of the players killed in the crash. Labelle is alive. Parker Tobin, an 18-year-old from Stony Plain, Alberta, has now been identified as one of the 15 who died.

    According to a joint statement, the families Tobin and Labelle “are grieving together. They hope the focus will remain on those grieving and those recovering, not the confusion in an unimaginable tragedy.”

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    So now the idiots make themselves known.

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