Wednesday - October 22, 2014

Shooting At Canada’s Parliament

A soldier has been shot and killed at a war memorial in Ottawa as police hunt two gunmen after another was shot dead inside the parliament building.

Police at one stage told the AFP news agency that possibly up to three shooters were feared to be on the roof of the building, which remains in lockdown.

The soldier was guarding the nearby National War Memorial when he was shot and wounded.

He was treated at the scene but later died of his wounds.

The War Memorial is a couple blocks from the Parliament building.

Peter Henderson, from Ottawa news service The Wire Report, was one of the first people on the scene.

Speaking to Sky News before it was confirmed the soldier had died, he said: “It was deserted because people had run away.

“I ran up, looked around to make sure there was no one with a gun coming at me; ran into the middle and saw a young man, clearly a soldier.

“He had been shot multiple times and there were other members of the Canadian forces and bystanders who had rushed to his aid and had begun CPR.

“He was not moving. [The injuries] were as severe as they could possibly have been.”

Mr Henderson spoke to one witness who saw the gunman carefully take aim.

“He said the man came around the corner, walked up, put a rifle on his shoulder, took aim and clearly made a targeted shooting of one of the two members of the honour guard,” he said.

A construction worker at the parliament told the Reuters news agency he heard a gunshot, and then saw a man dressed in black with a scarf over his face running towards the building with a gun.

Another witness said more than 30 shots were fired inside.

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The shooting comes two days after an Islamic convert ran down two Canadian soldiers near Montreal, killing one of them.

The shots rang out just before 10 a.m., when a guard at the National War Monument was fatally shot. The gunman next ran into the Parliament Hill building, where one MP reported hearing as many as 30 shots fired and a sergeant at arms was later credited with shooting the suspect dead. In the following moments and hours, Royal Canadian Mounted Police converged on the scene, more shots were fired less than a mile away near a mall and officials told Ottawa residents to barricade themselves in their homes as they searched for more possible gunmen.

At a news conference hours later, authorities described a “fluid situation,” and could not confirm whether more potential gunmen were at large, although they said no arrests had been made.

Pretty much all of Ottowa is on lock down.


UPDATE: Just a coincidence, eh?

A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Harper was safe after being evacuated from Parliament Hill. He is expected to make a statement about the attacks later today.

He had been scheduled to give Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, her Canadian citizenship today.

The government said there is not yet any evidence that the gunman he shot has any ties to violent Islamic extremism but noted that it is still early in the investigation.

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An Ottawa Citizen reporter inside the Parliament building, Jordan Press, wrote on Twitter that a suspect was ‘5’9-5’10, overweight & wearing a dark jacket’.

Witnesses also told the Citizen that they saw a man wearing an ‘Arabic scarf’ and carrying a long rifle, while others said the suspect looked South American.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/22/2014 at 03:03 PM   
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