DEATH OF SIX SASKATCHEWAN TEENS IN CRASH 'WORST TRAGEDY EVER' . . .
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WORKERS REMOVE A TANKER TRUCK THAT COLLIDED WITH A CAR NEAR LLOYDMINSTER, SASK...
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EDMONTON - Stricken with grief, Dalbert Attfield couldn't hold back the tears as he tried to talk about his dead 15-year-old son, killed with five other teens in a horrific collision early Saturday.
RCMP are still trying to determine the cause of the crash, and it could take weeks to get some answers.
"It'll be some time before we know the cause," said King, adding the tragedy is the most deadly crash in Saskatchewan so far this year.
A memorial was held for all six victims Sunday night inside St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church in Lloydminster. Upwards of 100 people from the community attended to give their condolences.
Strangers and those who knew the teens offered their condolences on Facebook to those affected by the tragedy.
RCMP are still trying to determine the cause of the crash, and it could take weeks to get some answers.
"It'll be some time before we know the cause," said King, adding the tragedy is the most deadly crash in Saskatchewan so far this year.
A memorial was held for all six victims Sunday night inside St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church in Lloydminster. Upwards of 100 people from the community attended to give their condolences.
Strangers and those who knew the teens offered their condolences on Facebook to those affected by the tragedy.
"We're just devastated," said Attfield, who had just returned to his Lashborn, SK, area home after visiting the spot where Tarren was killed.
"I just lost my mom two weeks ago. This is the worst tragedy ever. I just can't deal with it."
It was around 4:20 a.m. when Maidstone RCMP were dispatched to a semi-truck rollover approximately six km south of Lloydminster, a city which straddles the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, at the intersection of Hwy. 17 and Township Rd. 490.
When Mounties arrived, they found the truck had been involved in a collision with a small two-door car that became submerged in a slough. All but one person was trapped inside.
Three boys and three girls - between the ages of 13 and 17 - died in the crash. One of them was found outside the car and rushed to hospital, but later died.
The driver of the rig, which was hauling crude oil, suffered undetermined injuries.
Cpl. Rob King of the Maidstone RCMP said the car was eastbound along the road when it collided with the northbound rig.
RCMP have identified the female victims as Naomi Salas-Schafer, 13, Aimie Candace Elizabeth Hurley, 14, and Mackenzie Moen, 14, all of Lloydminster. The teenage boys are Kristopher Tavener, 17, and Jayden Boettcher, 16, of Marshall, SK, and Tarren Attfield, 15, of Lashburn, SK.
"It's so hard to think I knew them all and yet their lives taken so fast at such a young point in life," wrote a friend. "It kills me to know this, but they are in a better place and all we can do is pray for their families and be there for them."
spain train crash near santiago !!!
Police accuse Spain train crash driver of 'reckless homicide,' minister says,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain (CNN) -- Police in Spain have accused the driver of a train that derailed in northwestern Spain, killing at least 78 people, of "reckless homicide," the country's interior minister said Saturday.
The judge has until Sunday evening local time to decide whether to press formal charges against Francisco Jose Garzon, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters in Santiago de Compostela.
The driver, who spent the past two days under detention in hospital, guarded by police, is now at the police headquarters, he said.
The data recorders from the train are still with police, he added.
Separately, a spokesman for the Galician regional Supreme Court told CNN Saturday morning that the judge had not yet questioned Garzon.
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