Counsellors help students at B.C. school after student dies during field trip
SOOKE, B.C. — The Greater Victoria School District says counsellors will be at a local middle school to help students and staff deal with the death of a fellow student.
Superintendent Shelley Green posted a letter on the district’s website Wednesday, advising that the district has deployed its critical incident response team to Lansdowne Middle School after a student died during a field trip.
Officials with the Otter Point Volunteer Fire Department, near the west coast Vancouver Island community of Sooke, say they responded to Camp Barnard on Wednesday afternoon for a report that a boy was trapped under a fallen tree.
RCMP say in a news release the 13-year-old boy was unconscious and not breathing when emergency responders arrived.