Three (Two reported earlier) Alberta girls are dead and one in hospital after being engulfed in canola on an Alberta farm near Rocky Mountain House.
Children were reported, by RCMP, to have been playing in a truckload of canola when they were buried.
The accident happened on a farm at Withrow, Alta., Tuesday evening.
RCMP say the girls were pulled out of the canola by adults who called for emergency personnel. Despite the efforts of emergency workers, two of the girls, ages 11 and 13, died.
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Another 11-year-old girl was transported, in critical condition, to the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton by air ambulance. (She later died of her injuries)
RCMP say life-saving measures were attempted at length by personnel from Condor, Leslieville and Clearwater County Fire Departments, the Eckville and Rocky Mountain Ambulance and members of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP.
In 2014, 25 people were killed in farm accidents in Alberta, two were under 18, 12 were over 65.
In Canada about 140 people are killed every year on farms. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of child fatalities per year fell to an average of 10 deaths per year, down from an average of 16 deaths per year in the previous 10 years according to Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting agency.
