Two people were killed in a deadly single-vehicle explosion at the U.S.-Canada border on Wednesday.
A witness to Wednesday’s deadly vehicle explosion on the U.S.-Canada border says that he saw a car “flying” through the air at “over 100 miles an hour” before exploding on the Rainbow Bridge.
Authorities said that two unidentified residents of western New York state, who were both inside the vehicle, were killed when the car crashed into a checkpoint on the American side of the border at Niagara Falls shortly before noon Wednesday.
While the exact cause remained unknown, New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters at a press conference Wednesday evening that the preliminary results of an ongoing investigation had revealed “no sign of terrorist activity in this crash,” stressing that “there is no indication of a terrorist attack.”
Mike Guenther, of Kitchener, Ontario, told Buffalo NBC affiliate WGRZ that he and his wife were walking on the U.S. side of the border when he saw a car speeding toward the bridge just before the explosion. He said that the car was lofted high into the air after striking a fence.
“We were walking up the road and we [saw] this car coming down towards the border,” Guenther said. “And he was flying, over 100 miles an hour. There was a car in front of him.
