Two Pikangikum band members have died in a single motor vehicle accident on Nungesser Road about 60 kilometres north of Red Lake.
A pick up truck rolled several times July 14 while travelling northbound at about 1 p.m., according to police. A male and a female passenger were pronounced dead at the scene.
The male driver and a second female passenger were transported to Red Lake Hospital for treatment.
The investigation continues as Ontario Provincial Police officers from the Highway Safety Division, Technical Traffic Collision Investigators as well as the Forensic Identification Unit attended the scene.
Police did not release the identities of the victims.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
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