Alarms were raised from New York to Washington, DC, late Wednesday morning after the incident on the US side of the Rainbow Bridge crossing. “Two individuals died in the vehicle,” Hochul said, noting the car is associated with a western New York resident. The explosion prompted a temporary shutdown of all four bridges between Canada and the US near Niagara Falls on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Debris is scattered across the customs plaza at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing on Wednesday in Niagara Falls, New York. All cars coming into the airport were also being screened by bomb-detecting dogs, a Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority spokesperson said.

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