Rural Ontario communities reeling with grief after crash that killed 5 children

A wooden cross with a bouquet of blue flowers tied to it erected in a grassy field at the site of a collision in Mapleton that took the lives of five children.

Rural Ontario communities are reeling with grief after a deadly crash on Friday took the lives of five children in one family from a town near Kitchener-Waterloo. The township’s mayor says many in the area are turning to religion to reckon with the loss.