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Title    Shots Fired at Seat of Canadian Government
Date    Wednesday October 22 2014, @05:59PM
Author    n1
Topic   
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https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/22/1758223

halcyon1234 writes:

Several news outlets are reporting shots fired at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, the seat of the national government. There have been three confirmed shooting incidents, one at The National War Memorial, another within parliament itself and a third at a nearby shopping centre.

One ceremonial guard on site has been reportedly shot and killed. Reports say the gunman moved into the building itself, and has been killed by police. Most government officials have been evacuated.

Parliament Hill came under attack today after a man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, before seizing a car and driving to the doors of Parliament Hill's Centre Block nearby.

MPs and other witnesses reported several shots fired inside Parliament, and a gunman has been confirmed dead inside the building, shot by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms, according to MPs' eyewitness accounts.

A tragedy for the soldier killed -- but all I can think of right now is "great, now what security-theatre overreaction will we have to suffer through to close this barn door?"

Links

  1. "halcyon1234" - https://soylentnews.org/~halcyon1234/
  2. "Several news outlets" - http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-hill-attack-1-gunman-dead-after-soldier-shot-at-national-war-memorial-1.2808710
  3. "shots fired at Parliament Hill" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-29728503

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