Three killed as Ottawa bus crashes into bus shelter


  • World
  • Saturday, 12 Jan 2019

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Three people were killed and nearly two dozen were injured on Friday when a double-decker bus struck a bus shelter in the Canadian capital of Ottawa during rush hour, city officials said.

Part of the upper right side of the bus was shorn off in the collision, which happened shortly before 4 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) at a busy transit station in the west end of the city.

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