Three little girls were buried and smothered by canola seed at a family farm near Withrow in the western province of Alberta on October 13, 2015. The girls, 13 and two aged 11 had been on the back of a grain truck as it was being filled from a hopper. They somehow fell into the seed.
Adults scrambled to pull the girls out, but all three were in cardiac arrest by then. Two died on the scene and the third succumbed after being airlifted to hospital.
Over the last two decades in Canada, there has been an average of 140 farm-related deaths each year. About 70 per cent involve machinery and 14 per cent involve children, sometime being engulfed in grain.
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