The Friday night accident sent shock waves across a hockey-loving nation, devastated the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey team and plunged the community of fewer than 6,000 people into grief. Trudeau will attend the vigil, his office said on Sunday. Kennedy was on board a bus involved in another fatal crash in 1986, in which four members of the Swift Current Broncos were killed. For the prairies community of Humboldt, ice hockey is a sport that unifies the town and gives it its identity, bringing home two national championships. Fourteen killed in Canadian hockey team bus crash: mediaTownspeople and team supporters gathered at the local Uniplex sports and education complex to comfort each other.

Source: The Express Tribune April 09, 2018 01:18 UTC