The Canadian police are investigating a "terrorist act" after a knife attack on a policeman by a person who then, driving a van, injured four other people in his vehicle during last night at Edmonton, West Canada.
"I am extremely anxious and indignant at this tragedy," Prime Minister Justin Trident said today.
Mayor Edwin Don Ivons said it was "a solitary wolf attack".
Canadian TV networks CBC and CTV reported that the police found a flag in the vagabond of the jihadist organization Islamic State.
It all started yesterday around 20:15 (local time, 05:15 Sunday morning) near the capital of Alberta, where a match of the Canadian football was held.
A man driving a car at high speed dropped onto a metal railing and then to a policeman standing behind the railing hurling him at a height of five meters, according to the surveillance camera images released by Edmonton Journal.
The man stepped out of his beaten vehicle, made his round and then hit at least two knocks with the knife to the cop, before he escaped.
Shortly before midnight, the police, which had in the meantime set up checkpoints in this 800,000 city city, checked out a removable van and her driver was identified with the owner of the vehicle involved in the attack on the police officer.
There was then a chase involving more than ten police vehicles. Trying to escape "with more than 80 km / h" in Edmonton, the driver deliberately dropped the vagon first onto two passers-by, told a local witness an eyewitness.
"The suspect has deliberately attempted to injure pedestrians on the crossings or on the sidewalks," leaving four wounded at two different spots, said Rod Knecht, Edmonton police chief, at a press conference relaying television.