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Five dead in Canada shooting
five people died
and another was injured in a gun attack on a residential building on the outskirts of town. Canadian
from Toronto. The suspect who committed the attack also died after exchanging gunfire with the Police.
Military police were dispatched to the incident this Sunday night. “As soon as officers arrived, they were faced with a ‘horrifying’ scene in which several victims had died,” said local police chief Jim MacSween.
the police is investigate
the motivation for the crime and whether there was a connection between the victims and the suspect, who has not been identified.
Although Canada experiences fewer shootings than its American neighbor, it has seen a rise in gun violence, prompting it to recently enact a law banning firearms.
In April 2020, a gunman disguised as a police officer killed more than 20 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in the country’s worst massacre.
crime
Gun violence accounts for less than 3 percent of all violent crime in Canada, but since 2009 the per capita rate of guns fired with intent to kill or injure has increased fivefold.
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