2023-02-11 Great White North
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Montreal daycare crash: Trudeau says attack 'unimaginable'
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[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,
...a good French-Canadian name, eh? | 51, has been charged with first-degree murder.
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.
In the depths of a Montreal winter? Sounds like a nutter to me. Or possibly drunk. | Mr Chaabane added that some people were helping children who were trapped underneath the vehicle's wheels and inside the daycare before first responders arrived.
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.
A bit late for schizophrenia to bloom... had he recently started doing pot? | Nor had the suspect previously sought out any psychiatric or mental healthcare, according to public health records.
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