WINNIPEG — Four people died in a plane crash south of St. Theresa Point First Nation on Saturday night.

Two 50-year-old women and two men, aged 53 and 49, have died. The four were passengers in a bush plane flying from St. Theresa Point to Makepeace Lake in northern Manitoba. The pilot, a 20-year-old man, survived with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. There were no other survivors.

“It’s very devastating, very painful to have informed the families,” St. Theresa Point Chief Raymond Flett told the Free Press Sunday afternoon.

“I can’t seem to say the right words to be more comforting, but it’s devastating. Everybody’s still in shock.”

Flett said the deceased were two couples who were related to each other, and both families had young children.

“It’s our annual hunting season,

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