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Canadian police on Friday arrested and charged the truck driver who struck a busload of young hockey players at the beginning of April, leaving 16 dead and 13 injured in the ranks of the squadron. The heavyweight driver, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, was charged with 16 counts of "dangerous driving of a motor vehicle resulting in death" and 13 counts of "dangerous driving". of a motor vehicle that caused injury, "said Derek Williams, Chief of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, Federal Police) in the province of Saskatchewan (West). The only person who escaped unscathed, the driver, aged 29, was first released by the RCMP after the tragedy. He was finally arrested in Calgary, Alberta, where he was born on Friday morning, Williams told a news conference. The police concluded that he was responsible after reconstructing the circumstances of the accident, including the use of 3D drone modeling, said the RCMP officer, noting that the next step was now the trial. The semi-trailer truck was heading west and the Humboldt Broncos team bus, with 29 people on board, was driving northward when they crashed on April 6 in a remote area of the province of Saskatchewan. Both vehicles had been sprayed under the impact violence and, according to the RCMP, the truck was speeding. The police warned at the time of this tragedy, which had moved North America, that the investigation would be "very complex" and "take time". Of the 16 dead, 10 were hockey players aged 16 to 21. The other deceased were members of the club's management, journalist and bus driver. (Belga)
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