Smoke billows from a shocking explosion at Niagara Falls as a vehicle blast claims the lives of two people. Sign up for our Evening Headlines email for your daily news update on this tragic incident. New details are emerging about the two people killed in the vehicle explosion at the US-Canada border crossing at Niagara Falls. Law enforcement sources told CNN that a local New York man and his wife, who have not been identified, planned to attend a KISS concert in Canada but the gig was cancelled. The Seneca Nation said a vehicle stopped at a local resort and casino “for a matter of minutes shortly before the crash.” The incident occurred shortly before 12pm. Authorities say that the vehicle had attempted to cross the US border into Canada using Rainbow Bridge. When a border patrol officer directed the car into a secondary lane for searching, it sped up, went airborne over an 8-foot fence, crashed, caught on fire and then exploded. Two individuals who were inside the car died. One border patrol officer was injured, but transported to a nearby hospital and then released. After the Rainbow Bridge explosion, the United States and Canada heightened their security measures and shut down four international bridges. The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack, easing a tense period of high tensions as Americans headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. Preliminary reports indicate the people inside the vehicle were a man and woman from western New York. It is unclear if the two people inside the vehicle were married but reports indicate they were a “couple.” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said footage she had seen of the incident at the US-Canada border crossing was “rather extraordinary”. After a car exploded at the Rainbow Bridge was determined to be unrelated to a terrorism attack, the Niagara Falls Police Department will take over as lead investigators but said it may take a while before a conclusion is drawn. The car was attempting to enter Canada from the United States when it sped toward a checkpoint, crashed into a fence and erupted “into a fireball” just before midday, according to witnesses.
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