INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A speeding car crashed in flames on the bridge linking New York state and Ontario at Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people in the
vehicle and sparking a security scare that closed four U.S.-Canadian border crossings.Hours later, federal and state authorities said
investigators had found no evidence of an act of terrorism, though circumstances surrounding the crash on the Rainbow Bridge remained murky,
to the public, New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters on Wednesday evening
Her comments were echoed by federal and local law enforcement officials at a separate news conference.The FBI said in a statement it had
concluded its investigation
as Twitter.Video of the crash caught on security camera and posted to X by the U.S
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency showed the car traveling from the U.S
side at high speed, then hitting an object and flying into the air before crashing to the ground and exploding in flames.The driver and a
passenger perished in the wreck, and a CBP officer suffered minor injuries
He was treated at a hospital and released, an agency official said later.Authorities did not identify the two people killed
CNN reported the driver was a 56-year-old man who was traveling in a Bentley automobile with his wife to attend a concert by the rock group
members, Paul Stanley, came down with flu.The U.S
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on its website the Buffalo Niagara International Airport had closed, but Hochul said there were
in the Middle East and at the peak of U.S
holiday travel on the eve of Thanksgiving celebrations.The Rainbow Bridge and all three other border crossings along the Niagara River
between western New York and the Canadian province of Ontario - the Peace Bridge, the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and the Whirlpool Bridge -
said.Security measures were escalated at other airports and railways managed by the Niagara-Frontier Transit Authority, as well as at
various locations around New York City, officials said.The three bridges that were not involved were reopened early Wednesday evening, but
crashed sailed over an 8-foot-tall fence before landing in a fireball that incinerated the vehicle, leaving little but the engine visibly
intact and scattering debris over more than a dozen security booths on the bridge.Witness Mike Guenther told Buffalo television station
WGRZ-TV that he was walking near the bridge with his wife when the car, traveling at high speed, struck a fence at the crossing and was
