Five people were killed and another injured in a shooting in a suburb of Toronto in eastern Canada. That was announced by the police. The alleged killer died after a gun battle with law enforcement, local police chief Jim MacSween told reporters, adding that the shooting took place at an apartment building.
Filming last night in Vaughan, a town about 30 kilometers north of Toronto. The injured person was transported to the hospital and is not life-threatening. “As soon as officers arrived, they were confronted with a horrifying scene in which scores of people had died,” MacSween told reporters.
Police are investigating the motive and possible connection between the victims and the killer, which would have acted of its own accord. His identity has not been disclosed. The victims were found in several apartments in the building, the local police chief specified, adding that all residents were evacuated immediately.
The number of mass shootings in Canada is far fewer than in the United States, but these events have surged recently, prompting the country to ban handgun sales last October. In April 2020, a gunman disguised as a police officer killed 22 people in the eastern province of Nova Scotia, the worst mass shooting on record in the country. Last September, a man killed 11 people and stabbed 18 others, mostly in a remote Indigenous community in Saskatchewan province.
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