Train, bus crash in Canada; ‘multiple fatalities’
A city bus is severely damaged after colliding with a Via Rail passenger train at a crossing in Ottawa, Ontario on Wednesday. An Ottawa Fire spokesman told CP24 television there are “multiple fatalities” and a number are injured from the bus. AP
OTTAWA, Ontario — A Via Rail passenger train and a transit bus have collided at a crossing in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, and a fire official tells a television station that there are “multiple fatalities.”
Witnesses said Wednesday the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact.
Ottawa Fire spokesman Mark Messier tells CP24 television there are “multiple fatalities” and a number on the bus are injured.
Messier says there were no injuries on the train.
The accident occurred just outside a suburban train station in the city’s west end in the middle of the morning commute.
