Canada: Bus crashes into day care near Montreal

• Two children were killed and six were injured.
• Bus collided with a daycare center in Montreal.
• The inquiry is still ongoing.

Canada: According to police, two children were killed and six were injured when a city bus collided with a daycare center in a Montreal suburb on Wednesday morning.

The bus driver, who authorities claimed was a city transport employee, was detained. According to prosecutors, Pierre Ny St-Amand, 51, now faces two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault, and multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

The inquiry is still ongoing, according to police in Laval, where the accident occurred.

“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,” Erika Landry, a spokesperson for the police in Laval, said earlier.

According to hospital officials in Montreal and Laval, the six children’s injuries are not life-threatening.

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