Identified striker in Toronto, the attack motive is unknown

According to the Canadian Minister of Public Security, the Toronto attack has nothing to do with the issue of national security.

Thousands of people are suspected of attacking a van on a pedestrian in Toronto, in which, according to the latest data, 10 people were killed and 15 injured, is 25-year-old Alek Minassian, a Canadian television CBC reported on Monday. The driver of a rented white van deliberately broke into a crowd of people in the northern part of Toronto, police and hospital sources said.

The driver is in custody, the police announced. According to the head of the police, the motives of the attack are still unknown, and according to the Canadian Minister of Public Security, the Toronto attack has nothing to do with the issue of national security. Police Chief Mark Saunders said the incident appeared to be deliberately provoked and that the driver of the rented van was taken without resistance.

Early talk about terrorism

Similar attacks that have been carried out in the major cities in recent years have been terrorist, but Canadian Minister of Security Ralph Goodale pointed out that it is too early to say whether Toronto is involved in terrorism. He added that there was no alarm in the country regarding terrorism. and also that it is not known at this time whether there is an affair with the G7 group meeting in Toronto that is in progress. Investigators dealing with the van attack consider terrorism as the likely motive of the attackers, Reuters reports, referring to an unnamed source from US security services .

At least one witness said that it was a deliberate act. The witness told Reuters that he saw at least two dead bodies at the scene and testified that there were elderly people among the victims. One of the witnesses said that the van burst from among the pedestrians and destroyed them one by one, and according to In his words, the person who pushed the children's cart was also demolished.

No confirmed information

Police have announced that they will undertake a comprehensive investigation, and Public Security Minister Ralph Goodale declined to comment on the possible motive of the attack. "The investigation is at that level when no further information can be confirmed," he said, adding that the police are investigating to determine what happened and why, including the motives. "Bulk sources said ten people were admitted to Sunnybrook Hospital and that the two were immediately declared dead, and that five people were in critical condition.

This incident is the latest in a series of similar attacks that have been happening recently in the US and Europe and is one of the most violent in recent Canadian history. The incident took place 30 km away from the place where the meeting of foreign ministers of the group of seven most developed countries was held in Toronto.

• 24 Apr, 2018
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