{Suspect in custody after opening fire at school and second location in aboriginal community of La Loche, Saskatchewan.}<\/p>\n
Four people were killed and at least two wounded when a gunman opened fire at a high school and a second location in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, officials said.<\/p>\n
A male suspect was in custody but officials have not yet given a motivation for Friday\u2019s shooting in La Loche, an aboriginal community 600km north of the city of Saskatoon.<\/p>\n
Initial reports said five people were killed.<\/p>\n
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Supt. Maureen Levy said authorities had seized the suspect’s gun.<\/p>\n
“There is four individuals deceased as a result of this tragedy and there are other injuries and they’re being treated by health care professionals at this time,” she told reporters.<\/p>\n
“I can tell you that we have one male in custody. Public safety is no longer at risk and we have secured the firearm.”<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking from the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said what had happened was “every parent’s worst nightmare”.<\/p>\n
He added: “The community is reeling.”<\/p>\n
A student at the high school was just returning from lunch when shots were fired said his friends ran past him urging him to get out.<\/p>\n
“‘Run, bro, run!” Noel Desjarlais-Thomas, 16, recalled his friends saying to him as they fled La Loche’s junior and senior high school.<\/p>\n
“There’s a shotgun! There’s a shotgun! They were just yelling to me. And then I was hearing those shots, too, so of course I started running,” The Associated Press news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws than the United States.<\/p>\n
In the country’s worst school shooting, 14 college students were killed at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. A shooting in 1992 at Concordia University in Montreal killed four.<\/p>\n
Among Canada’s provinces, Saskatchewan had the highest rate of police-reported family violence in 2014, double the national rate of 243 incidents per 100,000 people, according to a Statistics Canada report on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Source:Al Jazeera:[Canada school shooting: Four people confirmed dead->http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/160123034756180.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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