TORONTO: Two unidentified men walked into a restaurant on Thursday in theCanadian city of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozenpeople, and then fleeing, local police said.

The blast went off in the Bombay Bhel restaurant at about 10:30 p.m localtime. Fifteen people were taken to the hospital, three of them withcritical injuries, the Peel Regional Paramedic Service said in a Tweet.

The two male suspects fled after detonating their improvised explosivedevice, Peel Regional Police said in a Tweet. No one has claimedresponsibility, and the motive for the attack was not known.

Police posted a photograph on Twitter showing two people with dark zip-uphoodies walking into an establishment. One appeared to be carrying anobject.

Peel Police said one suspect was in his mid-20s, stocky, and wore dark bluejeans and a dark zip-up hoody pulled over his head, with black clothcovering his face. The second was thin and wore faded blue jeans, a greyt-shirt and a dark zip-up hoody over his head, also with his face covered.

Roads in the area were closed and a large police presence was at the scene,with heavily armed tactical officers arriving as part of the largeemergency response, local media reported.

The attack in Mississauga comes a month after a driver ploughed his whiteRyder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto, killing 10 people andinjuring 15.

Mississauga is Canada’s sixth-largest city, with a population of 700,000people, situated on Lake Ontario about 20 miles (32 km) west of Toronto.Bombay Bhel is an Indian restaurant chain in the metro area of Mississauga.

India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said in a tweet that she was inconstant touch with the Consul General in Toronto and the Indian HighCommissioner in Canada and that the missions would work round the clock.