They’d left earlier that morning, getting on a bus for what was supposed to be a day trip to the casino.
But they never made it there.
Fifteen of the 25 people onboard a bus, mostly seniors, were killed after it was hit by a semi-trailer truck as the bus crossed a southwestern Manitoba highway intersection late Thursday morning.
Another 10 people on the bus were taken to hospital with serious injuries, RCMP said.
In the day since, the deadly crash has shaken people in the western Manitoba community the victims called home.
Here’s what else we know so far about what happened — and what comes next.
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