2 Children Dead, 6 Injured After Bus Crashes into Canadian Daycare, Driver Charged

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A 51-year-old bus driver is facing homicide charges after he drove a city bus into a daycare center in Laval, Quebec, just outside Montreal.

Two children were killed and six others were injured in the Wednesday morning crash,The New York Timesreported.

“He will be meeting the investigators but as of now we do not know the motive of the crime,” Laval Police spokesperson Erika Landry said, according to CNN.

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“We have six kids that have been transported into different hospitals in Montreal and Laval, but unfortunately we have two other kids that died as a result of the accident,” Landry said.

“It is very difficult to see how situation will evolve in young children but we want to make sure that they go back to their normal lives,” Girard said.

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“We had to hit him to subdue him, and we got him on the ground, and then the police put the handcuffs on him,” he said, according to theMontreal Gazette.

The injured children, between the ages of 4 and 5, were taken to Ste-Justine.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada expressed his grief over the tragedy.

“All Canadians are grieving with them and will do whatever we can to support them in their horrific pain over the coming days and months and years,” he said, according toThe Times.

source: people.com