Canada: Indian sentenced to 8 years in prison for bus crash that killed 16 people
(WorldNews Canada)

A 30-year-old Indian truck driver in Canada was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for causing a bus crash that killed 16 people, mostly members of a junior hockey team, in one of the worst disasters in the country’s sporting community. Advertising Jaskirat Singh Sidhu pleaded guilty in January to 29 counts of dangerous driving causing death or bodily injury. On April 6, 2018, Sidhu’s semi-trailer truck failed to stop at a highway intersection, killing 16 people and injuring 13 on the bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team and others en route to a playoff game. Sidhu appeared in a Melfort court Friday. Judge Inez Cardinal empathized with the victims’...