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TORONTO — Two males died Monday after a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians beside a highway within the japanese Quebec city of Amqui, though a senior Canadian official quickly dominated out a terrorism assault or a nationwide safety incident.

A provincial police spokeswoman mentioned 9 different individuals have been injured, together with two whose accidents are thought of critical.

Sgt. Hélène St-Pierre mentioned the 38-year-old driver, an area resident, turned himself in to police and was arrested below suspicion of committing a deadly hit and run.

A senior authorities official acquainted with the matter mentioned the incident was not terrorism or nationwide safety associated. The official spoke on situation of anonymity as they weren’t licensed to talk publicly on the matter.

Authorities had not talked about any motive.

St-Pierre mentioned the 2 individuals killed have been each males, one in his 60s and the opposite in his 70s. Among the many injured, two suffered critical accidents and the opposite seven have been being evaluated, she mentioned.

St-Pierre mentioned investigators and accident reconstruction specialists have been working to determine the circumstances of the crash.

“Every thing signifies it was an remoted incident, and that there is no such thing as a extra hazard within the space, and there is only one suspect,” she mentioned.

The incident occurred simply after 3 p.m. alongside St-Benoit Boulevard in Amqui, a city about 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of Quebec Metropolis.

The regional well being board confirmed {that a} “code orange” had been declared on the Amqui hospital, which typically signifies a scenario with a excessive variety of casualties.

Alain Gilbert, a truck driver, mentioned he was driving into Amqui when he noticed a number of ambulances tending to about 4 or probably 5 individuals unfold over a distance of about 500 meters (yards).

He noticed a police officer performing CPR on one individual mendacity on the bottom. He mentioned there didn’t seem like any kids within the group.

Final month in Laval, Quebec, police mentioned a man driving a city bus deliberately smashed into a daycare center, killing two children.

In 2021, a man used a pickup to kill four members of an immigrant family in London, Ontario, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned was a hate crime directed at Muslims.

In 2018, a man in a van rampaged through pedestrians in Toronto, killing 10 people. Alek Minassian was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder. Minassian, 28, advised police he belonged to a web based neighborhood of sexually pissed off males, a few of whom have plotted assaults on individuals who have intercourse.