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2 children dead, driver arrested after bus crashes into daycare in Laval, Que.


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A Laval police spokesperson said a city bus from the Société de transport de Laval hit a daycare in the Sainte-Rose neighbourhood around 8:30 a.m. Two children are dead, others are injured. The driver of the bus was arrested.
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Hamdi Ben Chaabane, who lives in the neighbourhood and witnessed the crash, said the bus was travelling 30 or 40 kilometres per hour when it struck the daycare.

"From what I saw, it wasn't an accident," he said. 

After the bus struck the daycare, the driver emerged and began acting erratically. 

"He opened the door. He took off all his clothes. He was totally naked," Ben Chaabane said. "We don't know why he did that. We dove on him. We tried to subdue him."

He described the driver as being "in another world."

"It was a nightmare. It's horrible. He didn't stop yelling. He wasn't saying words," Ben Chaabane said.

When the group tried to pry children out from underneath the bus, Ben Chaabane said they reached one child, who was only lightly injured, but were unable to reach a girl who was stuck deeper beneath rubble. 

He said they continued trying to reach the trapped children until firefighters arrived and told them to leave because the roof of the daycare was caving in. 

According to the Stéphane Boyer, the mayor of Laval, the person who was arrested has worked for the STL for 10 years  but didn't have any prior incidents on his record.

"There is a hypothesis that this was an intentional act but it will have to be confirmed by the investigation," Boyer said.

"It's chaos," said Julia Moreno, a mother whose child was in the daycare when the bus struck it. "There are injured children. It's terrible." 

 

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The driver has been charged with first-degree murder along with several other charges.

 

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Pierre Ny St-Amand charged with first degree murder after two children died and six were injured in incident

 

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Police have charged a bus driver with first-degree murder after he drove his vehicle at a high speed into a daycare center north of Montreal, killing two children, injuring six and leaving authorities searching for a motive.

 

Witnesses say that after Wednesday’s crash, the 51-year-old driver, identified as Pierre Ny St-Amand, stepped out of the bus, stripped off his clothes and started screaming.

 

“He was just yelling; there were no words coming out of his mouth,” Hamdi Benchaabane said.

 

A neighbor who ran to the center in Laval, Quebec, said she saw children screaming and crying and watched a mother collapse.

 

St-Amand is facing nine charges including first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm. He appeared in court via video late on

Wednesday from a hospital room and will remain detained.

 

 

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