Assistant Commissioner Curtis Zablocki holds a press conference at the Humboldt Uniplex on April 7, 2018 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan after a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a semi-trailer truck near Tisdale and Nipawin, Saskatchewan province, killing 14 people. Hockey-mad Canada was in mourning on Saturday after a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a semi-trailer truck in Saskatchewan province, killing 14 people.In a country where love of the sport is almost a religion, the crash sparked an outpouring of grief among players and fans on social media, while national political leaders expressed their sympathies.'We can now confirm 14 people have died as a result of this collision,' the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement, which did not say how many of the victims were players or coaches of the Humboldt Broncos team. / AFP PHOTO / Kymber RAE

15th person pronounced dead in crash involving Canadian junior hockey team

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The death toll from Friday's crash involving a Saskatchewan junior hockey team's bus and a transport truck has risen to 15, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced Saturday.

The bus was carrying the Humboldt Broncos of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League to Game 5 of their semifinal playoff series against the Nipawin Hawks.

A vigil will be held Sunday in lieu of Game 6.

The names of the deceased have not been released.

The crash occurred on a rural highway just north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan at 5 p.m. local time. The transport truck T-boned the bus.

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