Death toll reaches 16 in Canada bus crash

Flowers mark the area where the crash happened in Manitoba (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

A woman injured on a bus that collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba has died in hospital, police said, bringing the crash death toll to 16.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba confirmed the latest death from last Thursday’s crash.