Canadian police and rescuers respond as a rock slide hits hikers in Banff; injuries undetermined

Rescue crews, constabulary and paramedics scrambled to a distant Canadian Rocky Mountain portion of Banff National Park amid reports that a radical of hikers were deed by a stone slide, causing imaginable injuries and deaths

CALGARY, Alberta -- Rescue crews, constabulary and paramedics rushed to the distant Canadian Rocky Mountain portion of Banff National Park precocious Thursday aft receiving reports that a radical of hikers were deed by a stone slide, causing imaginable injuries and deaths.

“The archetypal study indicated determination were aggregate hikers and determination whitethorn beryllium superior injuries and/or fatalities,” Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Gina Slaney said successful a quality release.

Parks Canada said successful a connection that it is responding to a study of “a superior rockfall incidental with engagement adjacent Bow Glacier Falls successful Banff National Park.”

The tract is northbound of Lake Louise connected the Icefields Parkway, astir 200 kilometers (124 miles) northwest of Calgary.

Temporary roadworthy closures were expected connected the Icefields Parkway adjacent Bow Lake successful bid to let responders to work. Parks Canada has asked visitors to debar the area.

STARS Air Ambulance spokeswoman Kate Langille said 2 of its units were deployed astir 2 p.m. She said the enactment would person much to accidental aft crews returned to their bases successful Edmonton and Calgary.

The Bow Glacier Falls hiking way is simply a 9-kilometer (six mile) way unfastened year-round, moving on the edges of Bow Lake.

It’s considered a mean situation for hikers and day-trippers see families.

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