One in 10 people injured in last Thursday’s collision between a bus and semi-truck in central Canada has died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 16.
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The woman “has been hospitalized since the collision on June 15 and has succumbed to her injuries,” Canadian police said in a statement.
The accident, one of the heaviest in the country in recent years, occurred in the province of Manitoba at the intersection of two freeways.
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Nine other people remain hospitalized, several of them in critical condition. At the time of the accident, there were a total of 25 people on the bus between the ages of 58 and 88 who were on their way to a casino.
According to the first findings of the ongoing investigation, the bus would have entered the intersection while the semi-trailer was approaching.
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This drama commemorates an accident that happened in the neighboring province of Saskatchewan in 2018. A collision between a truck and a bus carrying young ice hockey players, the national sport, killed 15 people.