Two men killed when truck hits log pile on rural N.S. road

By News Staff

Posted Jul 8, 2013 01:08:27 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

KEMPTVILLE, N.S. – Two men are dead after their truck crashed into a log pile on a gravel road in western Nova Scotia.

RCMP say the men were driving in the Kemptville area Sunday when the driver lost control of the truck and it crashed.

Both men, aged 36 and 38, were taken to hospital where they died from their injuries.

Their names have not been released, but police they were from Yarmouth County.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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