Update: At least eight hospitalized after bus hits Quebec daycare, driver arrested
LAVAL, Que. - At least eight people including several children have been sent urgently to hospital after a city bus crashed into a daycare north of Montreal Wednesday morning, emergency officials say.
The bus driver, an employee of the Société de transport de Laval, has been arrested, Quebec Public Security Minister François Bonnardel told reporters. Montreal’s Sainte-Justine children’s hospital has received some of the injured. The hospital said in a statement it is “welcoming the young victims … with serious injuries requiring urgent care. The hospital centre teams are doing everything they can to treat patients, but also to support families in this tragic situation.”
Aerial news footage from the scene shows a city bus that has smashed through the front of the Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose. Laval police said they received a 911 call at about 8:30 a.m., but they were unable to give details about what caused the bus to hit the daycare.
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