Students from Manitoba, Iowa killed in fatal Vancouver Island bus crash: RCMP

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Two students killed in Vancouver Island bus crash were from Manitoba, U.S.: coroner GlobeBC

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A tow-truck crew removes a bus from an embankment next to a logging road near Bamfield, B.C., on Sept. 14, 2019.One of two 18-year-old students who died when a tour bus crashed on Vancouver Island is being remembered by his former principal as a friend to everyone at the high school he attended in Iowa.

He was killed when a charter bus carrying 45 students and two teaching assistants crashed on a gravel road between the communities of Port Alberni and Bamfield late Friday.John Bacon, Geerdes’s former principal, says he e-mailed parents and students on Saturday after learning about the crash and a crisis team is providing counselling to the school’s 1,600 students.

The RCMP say an 18-year-old woman from Winnipeg was also killed in the crash, but neither the provincial coroner’s service nor the Mounties are releasing the names of the students.

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