RCMP have released the names of 16 seniors who died after a minibus was struck by a semi-truck west of Winnipeg.
One by one, officers and family members placed large photos of the victims, who ranged in age from 68 to 88, at the front of a news conference Thursday in Dauphin, Man.
The bus had been taking the group from Dauphin and the surrounding area on a trip to a casino on June 15, when it crashed with the truck near the town of Carberry.
“The word tragedy has been used a lot over the last week but never has that word had as much meaning as it does when we look at the photographs that line this room,” said Supt. Jeff Asmundson, commander of the Manitoba RCMP’s west district….