New Brunswick girl, 13, dies after incident involving school bus

The New Brunswick RCMP says a 13-year-old girl has died following an incident involving a school bus in Dorchester earlier this week, but shared few details about what happened.

A young girl has died as a result of injuries received during an incident involving a New Brunswick school bus earlier this week.

Officers with the Sackville RCMP, along with local firefighters, responded to the incident on Woodlawn Road in Dorchester, N.B., Tuesday around 2:45 p.m.

A girl was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where she later died, RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Hans Ouellette said on Thursday.

The 13-year-old was a student at Dorchester Consolidated School, which is part of the Anglophone East School District.

Police have said very little about the nature of the incident. On Tuesday, the RCMP described it on Twitter as a “collision,” but Ouellette later confirmed the bus did not collide with anything.

On Thursday, Ouellette would not provide any more details but said criminality is not believed to be a factor in the girl’s death.

A provincial spokesperson confirmed the coroner’s office is investigating.

In a statement, Anglophone East School District spokesperson Stephanie Patterson said the district remains “focused on supporting students and staff who have been impacted by Tuesday’s serious incident.”