Indian-origin truck driver involved in 2018 crash that killed 16 in Canada ordered to be deported

An Indian-origin truck driver who caused a horrific accident in 2018 that killed 16 members of a junior hockey team in Canada will be deported to India.

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who arrived in Canada from India in 2014, lived in Calgary city in the province of Alberta.

Sidhu 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.