Youth hockey team's bus crash that killed 15 has left Canada 'in shock and mourning', says emotional PM Justin Trudeau - with $2million already raised to support victims' families

As details of the devastating crash between a bus carrying a Canadian junior hockey team and a truck emerged, prime minister Justin Trudeau (top right) sent an emotional message to the mourning nation. 'An entire country is in shock and mourning,' Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday. 'This is every parent's worst nightmare. No one should ever have to see their child leave to play the sport they love and never come back.'A GoFundMe page has raised more than $2.5million in less than 48 hours. The collision took place Friday at 5pm when the tractor-trailer truck and the bus crashed in Saskatchewan, Canada. There were 29 people on board the bus, including the driver. The junior team on the bus, the Humboldt Broncos, were headed to the town of Nipawin for a semi-finals playoff game when the accident took place on Highway 35, about 19 miles north of Tisdale, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The victims so far have been identified by friends and family as (from bottom left to bottom right) radio announcer Tyler Bieber, Logan Hunter, 18, Stephen Wack, 21, Jaxon Joseph, 20, Adam Herold, 16, Stephen Wack, 21, Head Coach Darcy Haugan and Logan Schatz, 20.

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