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Several people were recovering from injuries on Friday after a bus carrying a junior swim team collided with a heavy truck in Quebec’s Laurentians region during a snowstorm.

Quebec provincial police say they were called to the crash in Mont-Laurier, Que., on Thursday afternoon as a winter storm brought heavy snow across the province.

Police say six people were hospitalized out of about 30 on board, and their injuries are not life-threatening. The investigation into the crash is ongoing, but a provincial police spokesman said the bad weather could have played a role.

A swim club in northwestern Quebec confirmed in a Facebook post that its swimmers had been involved in the collision while travelling to a competition near Montreal.

“The Val-d’Or Marsouins swimming club was shaken this Thursday, Feb. 13 following an accident involving the bus that was taking us to the Junior Quebec Cup in Blainville,” club president …

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