PM Trudeau to attend candlelight vigil in Laval
A city bus crashed into the front of a daycare centre shortly after 8:30 a.m., killing two toddlers, both under the age of four.
Thursday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Laval, Quebec to take part in a candlelight ceremony being organised to remember the victims of the tragic daycare bus accident.
In the suburb north of Montreal where the tragedy occurred on Wednesday morning, a communal event is being planned. A city bus crashed into the front of a daycare centre shortly after 8:30 a.m., killing two toddlers, both under the age of four.
Six more kids were hurt and sent to nearby hospitals in an ambulance. The vigil will take place at the same church where locals met to comfort one another on Wednesday night following the catastrophe, the Église Sainte-Rose-de-Lima, at 6:30 p.m., the city’s mayor Stéphane Boyer stated on Twitter.
Along with Families Minister Suzanne Roy, Christopher Skeete, the Quebec MNA for the Sainte-Rose district, where the daycare is located, plans to attend.
Premier François Legault and the heads of every opposition party in the National Assembly were in Laval earlier on Thursday morning to pay their respects to the families of the victims and leave flowers at a memorial.
Prabhnoor Kaur