Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Justice said one of the deceased in Friday’s fatal crash involving the Humboldt Broncos bus was misidentified partly because the players all looked similar. Ministry spokesperson Drew Wilby said the coroner’s office mistook the body of 18-year-old goalie Parker Tobin from Stony Plain, Alta., for that of defenceman Xavier Labelle, an 18-year-old from Saskatoon, Sask. “A lot of these boys looked alike,” Wilby said in a news conference Monday morning. “They had the blond hair that was supportive of their team’s playoff run, they’re very similar builds, they’re all very similar ages and they’re very athletic of course as they are Junior A hockey players.” Labelle is injured but alive, and Tobin is among the 15 people who died when the bus carrying the junior hockey team collided with a semi truck in northeastern Saskatchewan on Friday. Wilby said while there are many ways of identifying victims, the most accurate method is throug...
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