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At least ten people have died in a frenzy in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada, Canadian media reports.
A 51-year-old gunman walked for a total of twelve hours and shot people.
“This is one of the most senseless acts of violence in the history of our province,” says Provincial Prime Minister Stephen McNeil.
Among the dead is a police officer, a 23-year-old woman. Another police officer was injured. The author is also dead.
Police say at a press conference that at least ten people have died, but warn that there may be more deaths not yet found, CBC reports.
The shooter identifies himself as Gabriel Wortman.
The man’s insane progress began in the small rural community of Portapique late Saturday. A police chase took off on one of Nova Scotia’s busiest highways and continued through Sunday morning.
The offender was driving a car decorated to look like a police car. He shot people in various parts of the province.
The search ended this morning near a service station in Enfield, about 35 miles north of Halifax.
Police have not confirmed how the author died, but various sources claim for CTV that the police shot him dead.
The massacre is the worst mass murder in Canada since a man shot dead 15 women in Montreal in December 1989, writes Reuters.
Nova Scotia Prime Minister Stephen McNeil called the act one of the “most senseless acts of violence” in the province’s history at a press conference.
– I never imagined when I went to bed last night that I would wake up to this terrible news that a shooter was on the loose in Nova Scotia, he says, according to CBC.
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Photo: Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press / AP
Photo: Tim Krochak / The Canadian Press / AP
Police during the operation.
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