Two children are dead and six are injured after BUS crashes into Montreal daycare center

Two children are dead, and six are injured after a bus driver crashed into a daycare center in Canada on Wednesday then exited his car and began stripping naked. 

Witnesses watched as driver Pierre Ny St-Amand, 51, plowed into the Laval building, north of Montreal, and into a group of 12 people that included adults at 8.30am. One child was pronounced dead at the scene and the other at the hospital.

Parents rushed to help the children stuck under the bus after they were run over, CBC reported. The six children injured are currently in the hospital and expected to survive.

Witness Hamdi Ben Chaabane watched as the driver drove into the center at about 24 mph before erratically screaming and taking his clothes off.

'He opened the door. He took off all his clothes. He was totally naked,' Chaabane recalled.  

While the ages of the victims haven't been released, authorities said the daycare is for children under five years old. The driver was arrested and charged with homicide.

Two children are dead and six are injured after a bus plowed into a daycare in Laval, Quebec on Saturday. About 12 people total were injured, and the six children are expected to survive

The driver, 51, was arrested and charged with homicide after the horrific event

Chaabane described the driver as being 'in a different world.' 

'From what I saw, it wasn't an accident,' Chaabane told the news outlet. 'We don't know why he did that. We dove on him. We tried to subdue him.' 

Chaabane was one of the several spectators rushing to pull out children who were stuck under the bus.

He was able to pull out one boy but struggled to pull out a girl deeper in, according to the news outlet. 

The day care is located at the end of a driveway off a cul-de-sac. There is a bus stop on the cul-de-sac, but the driver would have had to veer off the road and head down the long driveway to hit the building.

'There were no signs of skidmarks ... He went directly into the day care,' eyewitness, Mario Sirois, said. 

Sirois' wife, Ginette Lamoureux, the neighbor who ran into the day care shortly after the crash, said the driver was hysterical.

'His eyes were like popping out,' she said.

About 80 kids under the age of five attend that daycare facility. According to the New York Times, the center is likely Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose. 

Parents anxiously waited outside the daycare center following the incident. The motive of the crash is unclear but officials speculate it wasn't an accident

Parents were seen pulling their children out of school following the incident on Wednesday morning

Parents were seen embracing their children as they left the daycare where the accident occurred 

The bus can be seen partially inside the daycare center. While officials didn't name the daycare, it is likely Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose

Dr. Marc Girard, Sainte-Justine Hospital director, confirmed the children injured were in pre-school with at least two female and two male victims, the news outlet reported.

Girard added the surviving children were conscious but suffered traumatic injuries.

Police revealed at an afternoon press conference that the bus driver has been employed at Societe de transport de Laval for 10 years and has no prior criminal history.

'As of now, we don't know the motive for the crime,' police spokeswoman Erika Landry said.

Meanwhile, Laval mayor Stephane Boyer speculated the crash wasn't an accident. 

'There is a theory that it was an intentional act, but that remains to be confirmed by the investigation,' Boyer added. 

Government officials claimed the incident wasn't a terrorist attack and there wasn't a threat to the community. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said officials are 'following the situation closely' while comforting parents who lost their children. 

'All Canadians are grieving with them and will do whatever we can to support them in their horrific pain over the coming days and months and years,' Trudeau said.