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A grieving family from Abbotsford, B.C., went ahead with a wedding Sunday, two days after six of the bride's relatives were killed when a truck plowed through a traditional Indian wedding procession.
'We were just a little bit far away from the house and the man just gets the car and just zooms in top speed and crashes everybody.'—Yuvraj Boparai, 9
The victims were in a group of 30 people, mostly from the bride's family, who were marching down a dimly lit rural road just before 11 p.m. on Friday. The procession was hit from behind by a pickup truck, killing six and sending 17 others to hospital.
Abbotsford police said the road was dry at the time of the accident and have ruled out drugs or alcohol as causes. But Sgt. Amar Kingra said investigators are far from finished.
"We're looking into all of that and that's the responsibility of our detective section," Kingra said. "They're interviewing tens and tens of people. There could be a hundred people interviewed by the time we're done."
The CBC's Bob Nixon reported that tests are being conducted on the vehicle and police are investigating whether the driver, 71, may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
On Sunday, the family was trying to come to grips with the accident. Yuvraj Boparai, 9, one of the survivors, said his 12-year-old cousin was among those killed.
"We were just a little bit far away from the house and the man just gets the car and just zooms in top speed and crashes everybody," Yuvraj said.
The dead include three males and three females, whose ages ranged from the pre-teen to the 50s. There are reports that two of the dead were from B.C., two from Toronto and two from California, but police have not publicly confirmed it nor have they released the victims' names.
The injured included two infants, according to police.
The wedding took place in nearby Mission. Between 200 and 300 relatives gathered for the event from across British Columbia, Ontario, California and the United Kingdom, down from the expected 500 guests, Nixon said.
Another blow to Indo-Canadian community
Abbotsford Coun. Moe Gill, who knew one of the victims, said the roadside incident was another blow to the city's Indo-Canadian community, which was sent reeling in March when three Indo-Canadian farm workers were killed in a van crash on Highway One in Abbotsford.
"Well, this is shocking, you know, because we just getting over the tragedy we had a little while ago on the freeway," Gill said.
He said the latest tragedy will affect a lot of people because so many Indo-Canadians in Abbotsford either work with or are related to each other.
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'We were just a little bit far away from the house and the man just gets the car and just zooms in top speed and crashes everybody.'—Yuvraj Boparai, 9
The victims were in a group of 30 people, mostly from the bride's family, who were marching down a dimly lit rural road just before 11 p.m. on Friday. The procession was hit from behind by a pickup truck, killing six and sending 17 others to hospital.
Abbotsford police said the road was dry at the time of the accident and have ruled out drugs or alcohol as causes. But Sgt. Amar Kingra said investigators are far from finished.
"We're looking into all of that and that's the responsibility of our detective section," Kingra said. "They're interviewing tens and tens of people. There could be a hundred people interviewed by the time we're done."
The CBC's Bob Nixon reported that tests are being conducted on the vehicle and police are investigating whether the driver, 71, may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
On Sunday, the family was trying to come to grips with the accident. Yuvraj Boparai, 9, one of the survivors, said his 12-year-old cousin was among those killed.
"We were just a little bit far away from the house and the man just gets the car and just zooms in top speed and crashes everybody," Yuvraj said.
The dead include three males and three females, whose ages ranged from the pre-teen to the 50s. There are reports that two of the dead were from B.C., two from Toronto and two from California, but police have not publicly confirmed it nor have they released the victims' names.
The injured included two infants, according to police.
The wedding took place in nearby Mission. Between 200 and 300 relatives gathered for the event from across British Columbia, Ontario, California and the United Kingdom, down from the expected 500 guests, Nixon said.
Another blow to Indo-Canadian community
Abbotsford Coun. Moe Gill, who knew one of the victims, said the roadside incident was another blow to the city's Indo-Canadian community, which was sent reeling in March when three Indo-Canadian farm workers were killed in a van crash on Highway One in Abbotsford.
"Well, this is shocking, you know, because we just getting over the tragedy we had a little while ago on the freeway," Gill said.
He said the latest tragedy will affect a lot of people because so many Indo-Canadians in Abbotsford either work with or are related to each other.
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