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‘Things are not OK’: Priest prays for NWT crash victims and first responders

2 flight crew and 4 miners were killed in the plane crash; 1 miner survived
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Father Aaron Solberg holds a Sunday service after six people were killed in a plane crash on Tuesday, in Fort Smith, N.W.T., Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

A priest asked his congregation to pray for victims and first responders at a church service in Fort Smith on Sunday days after six people died in a tragic plane crash.

The charter plane had just taken off from the town on the boundary with Alberta and was en route to the Diavik Diamond Mine on Tuesday morning, when it hit the ground and caught fire.

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