Preliminary Hearing Begins for Quebec Man Charged With Murder in Daycare Bus Crash

The aftermath of a bus crash outside a daycare centre in Laval, Que, is shown on February 9, 2023. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

A preliminary hearing began Monday for a Quebec man accused of killing two young children by allegedly driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare last year.

Pierre Ny St-Amand was arrested after a transit bus crashed into the front of a daycare in the Ste-Rose neighbourhood of Laval, Que., on Feb. 8, 2023, killing two young children, aged five and four, and injuring six others.