Thursday, April 25, 2024

More funerals for Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims

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Funerals will be held Friday for three of the 16 people killed in the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus crash.

Adam Herold, who was 16 and the youngest member of the team, will be laid to rest in Montmartre, east of Regina.

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Herold was called up to play for the Broncos during their playoff run.

Thursday would have been his 17 birthday.

Forward Jacob Leicht, who was 19, is to be laid to rest in his home city of Humboldt.

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The service for Glen Doerksen, who has the bus driver, is set for Carrot River, Saskatchewan.

Doerksen was 59.

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The bus was headed for a playoff game in Nipawin last Friday when it collided with a semi-trailer at a rural intersection north of Tisdale.

There were 29 people on the bus — 16 have died and 13 were injured.

The driver of the truck wasn’t hurt.

Services for some of the other victims will be held over the weekend and into next week.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

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