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Police Investigate Deaths Of Two Women After Vehicle Goes Off Road, Into Ditch

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 30 Sep, 2015 01:34 PM

MCBRIDE, B.C. — Two women have died after a vehicle left Highway 16, east of McBride, B.C., and rolled into a ditch.

Police say the 76- and 78-year-old passengers died at the scene.

Two men aged 78 and 82 were also in the vehicle but they were treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

RCMP say witnesses reported seeing a vehicle leave the road before it gradually rolled into a ditch and came to rest on its side.

Police are continuing their investigation, and no names have been released.

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