The Canadian Bazaar
TORONTO: Five students from India are dead in a highway collision in Ontario on Satuday night.
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have identified them as Jaspinder Singh, 21, Karanpal Singh, 22, Mohit Chouhan, 23, Pawan Kumar, 23, and Harpreet Singh, 24.
The five were killed when their van collided with a tractor-trailer on Canada’s Highway 401 between Belleville and Trenton at about 3.45 am Saturday morning.
They were pronounced dead on the scene.
Two injured were rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
The victims were students in colleges in Montreal and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
OPP Constable Maggie Pickettsaid, “It’s a tragedy. Nobody wants to respond to that call for service, but we’re there, we’re working.”
There are over 200,000 India students currently in Canada studying in colleges.
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