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Tuesday 24 april 2018

Van kills 10 and injures 15 in Toronto; driver in custody

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The official agreed to re-
veal that information only if
not quoted by name.
Authorities released few
details in the case, saying
the investigation was still
underway, with witnesses
being interviewed and sur-
veillance video being ex-
amined.
“I can assure the public
all our available resources
have been brought in to
investigate this tragic situa-
tion,” Toronto Police Servic-
es Deputy Chief Peter Yuen
said earlier.
The incident occurred as
Cabinet ministers from the
major industrial countries
were gathered in Canada
to discuss a range of inter-
national issues in the run-
up to the G7 meeting near
Quebec City in June.
Minister of Public Safety
Ralph Goodale said that it
was too soon to say wheth-
er the crash was a case of
international terrorism and
that the government had
not raised its terrorism alert.
The driver was heading
south on busy Yonge Street
around 1:30 p.m. and the
streets were crowded with A body lies covered on the sidewalk in Toronto after a van mounted a sidewalk crashing into a number of pedestrians on Monday,
people enjoying an unsea- April 23, 2018.
sonably warm day when Associated Press
the van jumped onto the the sidewalk. Anybody in showed police arresting away. Witness Phil Zullo told lowing the incident and To-
sidewalk. his way he would hit.” the driver, dressed in dark Canadian Press that he saw ronto’s transit agency said
Ali Shaker, who was driving Witness Peter Kang told clothes, after officers sur- police arresting the suspect it had suspended service
near the van at the time, CTV News that the driver rounded him and his rental and people “strewn all on the subway line running
told Canadian broadcast did not seem to make any Ryder van several blocks over the road” where the through the area.
outlet CP24 that the driv- effort to stop. from where the incident incident occurred. Prime Minister Justin
er appeared to be mov- “If it was an accident he occurred in the North York “I must have seen about Trudeau expressed his sym-
ing deliberately through would have stopped,” neighborhood of northern five, six people being resus- pathies for those involved.
the crowd at more than Kang said. “But the per- Toronto. He appeared to citated by bystanders and “Our hearts go out to ev-
30 mph. “He just went on son just went through the make some sort of gesture by ambulance drivers,” eryone affected,” Trudeau
the sidewalk,” a distraught sidewalk. He could have at the police with an object Zullo said. “It was awful. said in Ottawa. “We are
Shaker said. “He just started stopped.” in his hand just before they Brutal.” going to have more to
hitting everybody, man. He Video broadcast on sev- ordered him to lie down on Police shut down the Yonge learn and more to say in
hit every single person on eral Canadian outlets the ground and took him and Finch intersection fol- the coming hours.”q