Indian-origin truck driver in fatal bus crash in Canada ordered to be deported

Sixteen people on the bus were killed and 13 were injured in the accident on April 6, 2018.

An Indian-origin truck driver who caused a horrific bus crash in Canada that killed 16 members and injured 13 others of a junior hockey team in 2018 was on Friday ordered to be deported to India.

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, a truck driver from Calgary, barrelled through a stop sign and into the path of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team’s bus at a rural intersection near Tisdale in Saskatchewan Province.

Sixteen people on the bus were killed and 13 were injured in the accident on April 6, 2018.

The decision came on Friday (May 24) at an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in Calgary for Sidhu.

He was granted parole after being sentenced to eight years for dangerous driving in the 2018 bus crash.

Sidhu's lawyer has said there are still numerous other legal procedures to come, and the deportation process could take months or years.