Canada highway crash near Winnipeg leaves at least 15 dead

At slightest 15 radical person died aft a "very serious" roadworthy clang successful the Canadian state of Manitoba, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

The clang was betwixt a semi-trailer motortruck and a autobus carrying mostly aged people.

Police said the collision happened connected the Trans-Canada Highway adjacent Carberry, 2 hours westbound of Winnipeg.

Emergency crews and aerial ambulances person responded to the crash.

In respective tweets, the RCMP successful Manitoba said it was responding to a "very serious... wide causality" collision, and that each of its resources, including its large transgression unit, had been deployed to the scene.

Emergency vehicles, including an aerial ambulance and 12 ambulances, were dispatched to the country astatine 11:43 section clip connected Thursday (17:35 BST), the RCMP said astatine a property conference.

Most of the seniors aboard the handi-transit conveyance were from Dauphin, Manitoba and the surrounding areas.

At slightest 10 people, including the 2 drivers, are astatine infirmary with apt "significant" injuries considering the "magnitude and unit applied" from the crash, officials said.

The RCMP had asked motorists to debar the country arsenic respective kilometres of the road were closed adjacent the clang site.

John Proven described the country arsenic "shocking". "I person ne'er seen an mishap that big," helium said.

He said helium besides saw a semi-trailer motortruck adjacent with a burned beforehand end, and that astir 20 constabulary vehicles and 8 ambulances were astatine the scene.

A spokesperson with the section aerial ambulance work told the quality outlet that the bureau had deployed 1 of its largest responses ever to the crash.

"This is benignant of successful enactment with the akin ample incidents that we responded to successful the past, specified arsenic the calamity with Humboldt Broncos," Blake Robert said, referring to a 2018 clang betwixt a autobus carrying a younker hockey squad and a semi-trailer motortruck that led to the decease of 16 people.