Multiple gunmen stormed the Canadian Parliament complex Wednesday, shooting at least one soldier and spraying as many as 30 shots inside the government building in Ottawa in a brazen assault that left the nation’s capital on virtual lockdown just two days after a terror attack in Quebec, officials said.<\/p>\n
The shots rang out just before 10 a.m., and were quickly followed by reports of “several shooting incidents in downtown Ottawa,” according to a tweet from police. The shooting at the government complex came after witnesses said they saw two men jump out of a Toyota Corolla and run toward the National War Memorial, where one opened fire on a soldier, officials told the Ottawa Sun. The gunmen then ran to the Parliament building, where witnesses later said they saw one gunman down near the library. Bernard Trottier, a Toronto-area MP, tweeted that the gunman inside Centre Block “has been shot and killed.\u201d The other was reportedly being sought.<\/p>\n
Veteran Affairs Minister Julian Fantino told QMI Agency that Parliament\u2019s sergeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers, shot one gunman dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the details are not in, but the sergeant-at-arms, a former Mountie, is the one that engaged the gunman, or one of them at least, and stopped this,\u201d Fantino said from inside Centre Block. \u201cHe did a great job and, from what I know, shot the gunman and he is now deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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