10 killed, 15 injured in Toronto van crash

Several people were killed or injured after a van plowed into pedestrians in Toronto.
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Ten people were killed and 15 injured Monday afternoon when a man drove a van down a Toronto sidewalk, authorities said.

The suspected driver of the vehicle, identified as 25-year-old Alex Minassian, is in custody, though authorities have yet to identify a motive. The incident occurred down a busy stretch of Yonge Street in Toronto's North York neighborhood. Toronto Deputy Police Chief Peter Yuen told reporters that authorities would be on the scene for "days," and that the investigation would be "complex."

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.