Canada crash: 14 executed as junior hockey group's transport and lorry impact

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Police in Canada have affirmed that 14 individuals were killed when a lorry and a transport conveying a lesser ice hockey group crashed on Friday evening.

The Humboldt Broncos were going on Highway 35, north of Tisdale in the region of Saskatchewan.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said 28 individuals including the driver were on the transport, 14 of whom were executed.

The other 14 on board the transport have been taken to healing facility. Three are in basic condition.

In a tweet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed: "I can't envision what these guardians are experiencing".

The lorry and the transport crashed at around 17:00 neighborhood time (23:00 GMT).

Their group list demonstrates the players are matured in the vicinity of 16 and 21.

Regal Canadian Mounted Police assessor Ted Munro said safeguard endeavors were progressing and that they had set up a data and bolster place for families at the Nipawin Apostolic Church.

"Our considerations and petitions are with the families today around evening time," he said.

"It was a catastrophe," he told the Saskatoon Star Phoenix paper. "We had a crane lifting the transport."

Group president Kevin Garinger discharged an announcement expanding "our musings and petitions" to the groups of staff and competitors.

"Our Broncos family is in stun as we attempt to understand our extraordinary misfortune."

Darren Opp, the leader of the Nipawin Hawks, told the Globe and Mail: "It's an unpleasant mishap, my God, it's, terrible.

"There's uncles and mothers and fathers holding up to hear whether their children and nephews are OK."