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No indication Canada restaurant blast was terror or hate crime: Police

No indication Canada restaurant blast was terror or hate crime: Police

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Police are still looking for two unidentified men who walked into the restaurant on Thursday evening in the Canadian city of Mississauga and detonated the bomb.

The Canadian police on Friday said that the bomb explosion in an Indian restaurant, which injured 15, did not seem to be terror-linked or a hate crime.

Police are still looking for two unidentified men who walked into the restaurant on Thursday evening in the Canadian city of Mississauga and detonated the bomb.

According to initial media reports, at least 15 people have been injured out of which three are in critical conditions.

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The blast occurred in The Bombay Bhel restaurant in Mississauga.

According to a report by Reuters, the bomb was set off by two unidentified men.

The two male suspects went into the restaurant and detonated their improvised explosive device, Peel Regional Police said in a Tweet. The men then fled.

No one has claimed the responsibility for the attack by now.