OTTAWA, Ontario — A double-deck city bus smashed into a transit shelter during Friday’s rush hour, and Ottawa authorities said several people were killed and at least 17 people were injured. Ottawa Hospital’s trauma center said it had received nine patients “in critical condition” from the crash. The accident happened at the Westboro station in a neighborhood west of downtown Ottawa. Photos posted on Twitter shows extensive damage to the front of the bus, with the roof of a shelter pushed well into the bus’s second deck. Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson tweeted that he was shocked to hear of the “horrific incident.”Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2019 23:11 UTC