A vehicle exploded this Wednesday on a bridge over the border between the United States and Canada, near Niagara Falls.. At least two people have died after the explosion and one has been injured, according to the local newspaper Niagara Gazzette.. At the moment it is unknown if the event was provoked or if it was an accident.

Both CNN and FoxNews agree that the explosion was caused by a car bomb and Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has described the event as a “terrorist attack.” The US authorities are investigating the explosion but, however, no source has confirmed so far that a terrorist motive was behind it.. More forceful has been the governor of the state of New York, Kathy Hochul: “Based on what we know at this moment, and I repeat that everything can change, there are no signs of terrorist activity with respect to this crash.”

Apparently, the vehicle that exploded was trying to enter the United States from Canada over the Rainbow Bridge, which rises over the famous falls.. According to the aforementioned newspaper, the vehicle accelerated, knocked down a fence separating the two directions and moments later the explosion was felt.. However, this media has not said that it was a car bomb.

For its part, The New York Times has reported that, according to the preliminary investigation, the car did not contain explosives.. The investigators cited by the media believe that the explosion could have been the result of the impact of the collision.. The same sources also indicated that a suitcase that did not contain explosives was found near the vehicle.

According to FoxNews, the two people who died were the occupants of the vehicle that exploded, while the local newspaper Niagara Gazzette states that the injured person is a border agent.. As indicated by the Canadian authorities, both the Rainbow and three other bridges that link the United States with Canada are closed in both directions.. Additional security measures have also been taken “at all border crossings in the country.”

Both the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the Minister of Public Safety, Dominic LeBlanc, have said that “the situation is very serious”. Trudeau has also expressed that he is in permanent contact with the US authorities to “continue receiving information and working on this very serious situation.”. For his part, LeBlanc indicated that he cannot give more details about what happened because “the situation is evolving rapidly” and the authorities have received contradictory information.. Joe Biden's Government has not yet commented on the matter.

“I have been informed about the situation that occurred at the Rainbow Bridge in Buffalo,” said Hochul, who also assured that the state police are actively working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to monitor all entry points to NY. “State agencies are on site and ready to help,” he added.

“I am traveling to Buffalo to meet with authorities and emergency services and will update New Yorkers when more information is available,” Hochul said on his X account, formerly Twitter. Meanwhile, the federal government in Washington has reported that the president, Joe Biden, “had been informed” and that he and his team were closely following the investigations.

The local media Buffalo News cites “a source with knowledge of what happened” and assures that the driver of the damaged vehicle entered the bridge at high speed and invaded a road in the opposite direction, before colliding with a barrier set up by the Traffic Service. Customs and exploit. A video that began to circulate shows the white car entering the border area at full speed, and a witness cited by the Canadian media claims that it was going “at 200 kilometers per hour.”