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Fifteen people — mainly senior citizens — were killed and 10 injured when a bus heading to a casino collided with a semi-trailer truck at a rural intersection in Canada, authorities said.
The bus was carrying 25 people — most of whom were seniors from in and around the western Manitoba city of Dauphin — when it crashed around 11:40 a.m. Thursday, said Rob Hill, Commanding Officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Most of the dead were seniors, said officials, who confirmed that the drivers of both vehicles survived.
Ten people were taken to hospitals in unknown conditions.
Broken glass and debris littered the roadside at the crash site where the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5 intersect in Carberry, which is about 105 miles west of Manitoba’s capital of Winnipeg.
Images from the scene broadcast by Canadian networks showed what appeared to be a large bus smoldering in a ditch near a damaged transport truck.
