Canada police rush to identify 15 victims of deadly highway collision

Crash involving a truck and a bus carrying mostly elderly people in Manitoba was one of the country’s worst in recent years

Police in the Canadian province of Manitoba are trying to identify the 15 people killed when a truck and a bus carrying mostly elderly people collided in one of the country’s worst recent road crashes.

Flags at the legislative building flew at half-mast to mark the victims of Thursday’s collision near the town of Carberry in south-western Manitoba, 170km (105 miles) west of Winnipeg.