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.
Authorities did not immediately say how many of those injured in the crash in Laval, Que., were children.
The bus driver, an employee of the Société de transport de Laval, has been arrested, Quebec Public Security Minister François Bonnardel told reporters.
“It’s premature to give you the number of injured … it’s terrible. It’s a terrible tragedy,” Bonnardel said in Quebec City.
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.”…