A 38-year-old Canadian man is under murder charges after he allegedly rammed a pickup truck through pedestrians in an eastern Canada town and as a result killed two men and injured nine people who were walking alongside a road.
Three of the injured were in critical condition, according to the provincial police spokeswoman Sgt. Hélène St-Pierre.
Several ambulances swarmed to the scene after the ramming took place about 3 p.m. 
An Amqui resident turned himself into police immediately after the crash, and was facing murder charges, St-Pierre said. “For now, the investigation tends to show that the collision was a voluntary act,” she added.
A senior government official familiar with the matter who spoke under anonymity said the incident was not terrorism or related to national security.
Regional health authorities in the Lower St-Lawrence region confirmed six of the injured were transported by plane to a Quebec City hospital.
In similar cases,In 2021, a man used a pickup to kill four members of an immigrant family in London, Ontario, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said was a hate crime directed at Muslims.In 2018, a man in a van rampaged through pedestrians in Toronto, killing 10 people. Alek Minassian was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.
