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| Montreal daycare crash: Trudeau says attack 'unimaginable' | |||
| 2023-02-11 | |||
| [BBC] Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has said the deaths of two children at a daycare that police say was deliberately rammed by a bus driver was "unimaginable". Mr Trudeau spoke as he attended a vigil on Thursday evening for the victims north of Montreal. Two four-year-olds were killed in Wednesday morning's attack. About a dozen people were injured in the crash, including six children. Two of the children have since been released from a hospital in Montreal. The rest were in a stable condition and expected to recover. Quebec Premier Francois Legault visited the crime scene earlier in the day to offer his condolences. Mr Legault laid a wreath and spoke to parents and staff who worked at the Garderie Educative Ste-Rose daycare. Residents and police remain puzzled as to why the suspect attacked the busy daycare. The defendant, identified by police as Pierre Ny St-Amand,
He appeared in court via video conference on Wednesday afternoon from hospital, where he was reportedly undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Hamdi Ben Chaabane, an eyewitness, told reporters that the suspect got off the bus after the crash, removed his clothes and began shouting incoherently.
The suspect had been employed as a bus driver by the local public transit system for 10 years, and has no criminal record or incidents of note on his file.
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