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RSS Feeds`No one expects this to happen here´: Witnesses, community describe chaotic scene following Mississauga restaurant bombing
(The Star Books)

 
 

26 may 2018 02:42:10

 
`No one expects this to happen here´: Witnesses, community describe chaotic scene following Mississauga restaurant bombing
(The Star Books)
 


Two separate birthday parties at a Mississauga restaurant ended in chaos Thursday evening as a bomb explosion described as “a mini earthquake” rocked a popular Indian establishment.“Glass was broken in the street,” said Rafael Conceicao, who was near Bombay Bhel restaurant, on Hurontario St. near Eglinton Ave., when the bomb went off.“Everything was destroyed. Lots of blood in the floor. Many people were screaming. They were trying to run out from the restaurant.”Police said about 40 people were in the restaurant at the time. The blast injured 15 people, all of whom have since been released from hospital.The probe now turns to finding two male suspects police allege brought an improvised explosive device into the restaurant around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.Read more:What we know and don’t knowOntario party leaders condemn Mississauga bombingThe two men can be seen on surveillance footage entering the restaurant wearing dark hoodies pulled over their heads. Witnesses described one of the men as carrying what appeared to be a paint can or pail. The pair later fled eastbound, police said. The Peel police canine unit tried to track them down Thursday night, but without any luck.Vikram Mann, who says he has been to Bombay Bhel many times with his children, was in a parking lot across the intersection when the blast went off.“It felt like a mini earthquake,” Mann said. “I thought there was an accident .... It was huge thud of noise.”He was horrified to later learn it was a bomb blast. “It brings a shiver down my spine,” he said.By Friday morning, the usually lively plaza was cordoned off with yellow police tape, and six police cruisers remained on the scene. The doorway and window of the restaurant were shattered, a white piece of paper stuck at the itemway.The restaurant’s owner, Manmohan Singh Nagpal, and his nephew were at the restaurant at the time of the explosion, and remain shocked by ...


 
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