A driver has been charged with first-degree murder after ramming his bus into a daycare centre. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and killing two children was ordered on Thursday to undergo psychiatric evaluation, as mourners laid flowers and lit candles for the victims.“He is so far presumed fit to appear,” Ms Karine Dalphond, the prosecutor in charge of the case, told AFP.
Mourners – among them Canadian politicians, Laval residents and people who had travelled from other cities – came to lay flowers or stuffed toys and to light candles at the site as well as at a nearby church. His wife Annick Belisle, a teacher for 20 years, was in tears at his side. She called the deaths “senseless.”
One child died at the scene and another in an ambulance, authorities said, while a further six children were rushed to hospital but have since been deemed out of danger.
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