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VOL 23 - ISSUE 23
www.theasianstar.com SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2024
2-year jail for deadly Massey Tunnel crash There were tears of relief in a Richmond, B.C. courtroom on Wednesday as the wrong-way driver who caused a fatal crash in the George
Massey Tunnel four years ago was sentenced. Sundeep Singh Mann, 42, was sentenced to two years less a day after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm in the death of Ky Tran, 61, and serious injury to her husband. “The judge, I think she actually understood and read through all the victim impact statements,” said Lisa Tran, the victim’s daughter. “Our Canadian laws aren’t very good, and we just didn’t think she was going to give him that long. But she gave him what the Crown asked, and we are quite happy with it.” Continued on Page 4...
2 Indian students die, 2 hurt in fatal Hwy 1 crash
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Brace for heat wave starting this weekend
An Environment Canada meteorologist says British Columbians should brace for an upcoming heat wave that’s expected to send temperatures into the high 30s and beyond in the southern Interior. Warning preparedness meteorologist Armel Castellan says the heat will start on Vancouver Island and move east across the province, hitting the Interior over the latter part of the weekend. The forecast for Kamloops shows daytime highs of 40 C next Monday and Tuesday, which would be enough to trigger a heat warning. Continued on Page 6...
Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana can be extraditable to India: US attorney
Four people involved in a fatal head-on collision on Highway 1 in West Vancouver, last week were Indian international students, police said. The West Vancouver Police Department said a vehicle travelling eastbound in the westbound lanes near Westport Road crashed head-on into another vehicle around 11:40 p.m. on June 26. Four men, all Indian nationals with temporary student visas, were in the vehicle heading westbound, police said; two of them, aged 20 and 21 years old, were killed. The other two, aged 19 and 20, were seriously injured, police said. The sole occupant of the vehicle heading eastbound in the westbound lanes was a 26-year-old woman, also a foreign national, according to police. No update on the woman’s condition was given. Continued on Page 6...
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Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, who is sought in India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, is extraditable under the plain provisions of the US-India extradition treaty, a US attorney has told a federal court. Assistant US Attorney, Criminal Appeals Chief Bram Alden was making a closing argument before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where Rana has appealed against the order by a US District Court in California that denied the writ of habeas corpus. Continued on Page 15...