A police officer looks inside the Bombay Bhel restaurant, where two unidentified men set off a bomb late Thursday night, wounding more than a dozen people, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada May 25, 2018.

Several people are being treated for injuries after two suspects detonated an improvised explosive device inside a restaurant near Toronto, Canada, according to police.

Fifteen patients were transported from the scene of the incident, which took place on Thursday night local time, a police source told CNBC.

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Three of those 15 people were taken to trauma centers with "critical blast injuries," according to a twitter post from Peel Paramedics.

Two suspects fled the scene immediately after the explosion, said police, who asked for the public's assistance in identifying the men.