Two separate shooting incidents rocked Canada’s capital of Ottawa on Wednesday - one killed a soldier at a war memorial, and another left a gunman dead who had opened fire inside the Parliament building nearby.
The gunmen inside the country’s Parliament fired shots near a room where Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was giving an address. The shooter was reportedly killed by the Parliament’s Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers and Harper was safely removed from the building.
Police could not immediately confirm whether the same gunman was involved in both incidents, but authorities are reportedly investigating Canadian national Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as a possible suspect.
Wednesday’s shootings followed a suspected terrorism incident on Monday when a 25-year-old man – identified by police as a radicalized Muslim convert - drove his truck into the vehicle of two soldiers, killing one and injuring the other.
That incident - after which the perpetrator Martin Rouleau Couture was killed by police - Canadian authorities raised the nation’s terror threat level.
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