“It’s premature to give you the number of injured — it’s terrible. It’s a terrible tragedy,” Public Security Minister Francois Bonnardel said.
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Urgences Santé said eight people have been taken to hospital in “emergency mode,” but did not provide their ages. Nine ambulances remain at the site. Montreal’s Ste-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.
Hamdi Ben Chaabane, who said he lives near the daycare, said he and several other people tried to subdue the bus driver. Ben Chaabane said he believed the driver deliberately drove into the building.He said after the crash, the bus driver, screaming, opened the bus door and started taking all off his clothes.Article content
He said they helped get one child out from underneath the bus and then firefighters arrived and took over. Benchaabane said children were inside the daycare at the time of the crash and parents were still arriving to drop their kids off.
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