Five students from India have been identified as the people killed in a two-vehicle crash Saturday morning on Highway 401 west of Belleville, Ont.
Police were alerted about the crash between a tractor-trailer and passenger van in the highway’s westbound lanes at approximately 3:45 a.m., according to the Ontario Provincial Police’s Quinte West detachment.
Five people, all of whom were riding in the van, were declared dead at the scene.
On Sunday, OPP identified the victims as Harpreet Singh, 24, Jaspinder Singh, 21, Karanpal Singh, 22, Mohit Chouhan, 23, and Pawan Kumar, 23.
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All five had been studying in Montreal and