A bus carrying a junior hockey team lost control on a highway in northern Alberta and entered a ditch in a heavily-wooded area early Friday morning.

Athabasca RCMP responded to the single-vehicle collision on Highway 2, just south of Athabasca, Alta., about 130 kilometres north of Edmonton, where they found several occupants had sustained injuries. Two teenagers were sent to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Several other occupants were injured from the collision, but no fatalities were reported, police said.

The National Junior Hockey League (NJHL) confirmed in a statement Friday afternoon that the bus was carrying the Athabasca Rivermen Junior A Hockey Club, whose players range in age between 15 and 19.

Police believe that icy road conditions were a contrib

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