Ten dead and fifteen injured is the so far tragic account of the bloody incident that shocked Toronto, Canada on Monday night, when a 25-year-old driver of a white rented van threw the vehicle on dozens of pedestrians in the city center.
"It was a horrible tragedy," said Ralph Goodell, the country's public security minister, while the police chief spoke of an "intentional" action.
After consulting the security and intelligence services and on the basis of "all available information", the Minister of Public Security assessed that the "horrific events" do not seem to "have anything to do with national security".
The chronicle of the tragedy
At 13:26 local time (20:26 Greek time) the police received a call on the number of emergencies. A truck had hit a pedestrian on Young Street, one of "Canada's busiest streets," in central Toronto.
The high-speed white van began hitting people on the sidewalks of Yangtze Road, where many office workers working in the area were sitting or walking and taking a lunch break. He continued his deadly course for at least "a kilometer", as Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders stressed.
At 13:52, 26 minutes after the first call, "a man was arrested" near the van, which was parked on the sidewalk, with its front part damaged.
Who is the perpetrator?
Police say the driver of the van is Alex Minassian, 25, a resident of Richmond Hill, a suburb of northern Toronto. According to the authorities, the interrogation of Minasyan will allow to determine the "exact motive" of his act. The young man was unknown to the security services.
At the time of his arrest, he was waving an object he was holding in his left hand towards the police, shouting at one of them "kill me" and claiming that he had a gun. One police officer, aiming at him with a pistol, replied "I am not interested. "Fall down", as shown by videos posted on social networking sites. The policeman was praised by many in Canada for his restraint and maturity.