Multiple deaths in bus crash involving junior hockey team from Saskatchewan

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Tragedy struck in rural Canada on Friday night, as a bus carrying a junior hockey team - the Humboldt Broncos - was struck by a transport truck, resulting in the deaths of 14 and injuries to 14 others, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The bus was carrying the team to a game against the Nipawin Hawks, another team competing in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, when it was T-boned by a transport truck on a rural highway just north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan.

Three air ambulance helicopters were dispatched to the area, and rescue efforts were ongoing late Friday night.

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