Initial reports at the scene suggested that one attacker had been shot by police inside the building while up to two more were feared to be at large, as officers sealed off the area.
MP Maurice Vellacott said that House of Commons security had told one of his aides that a suspect had been killed inside parliament.
Ottawa police said they were actively looking for one or more suspects.
The soldier appeared seriously wounded. Emergency medics were seen pushing on his chest to revive him.
Police raced to seal off the parliament building and the office of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, pushing reporters and bystanders further back and blocking roads with squad cars.
Mr Harper left the area of the shooting and was "safe," his spokesman Jason MacDonald said.
People in downtown Ottawa should stay away from windows and off roofs due to an "ongoing police incident," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cautioned in a statement.
The wounded soldier was taken into an ambulance where medical personnel could be seen giving him cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
One witness, Marc-Andre Viau, said he saw a man run into a caucus meeting the parliament, chased by police who yelled "take cover."
That was followed by "10, 15, maybe 20 shots," possibly from an automatic weapon, he said....................http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1022/654154-canada-shooting/
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The shooting comes two days after an Islamic convert in a car ran down two Canadian soldiers, killing one, near Montreal....
ReplyDeleteWitnesses said a second man may have been working with the shooter. Both men wore scarves with the same design, wrapped around their heads.
Reporters at the scene said police are treating the situation as if there is more than one gunman.
Gunfire was still being reported about an hour after the incident began at 1500 UT (10:00 a.m. EDT).
Authorities had raised the threat level in the country from low to medium, local media reported.
No one had yet claimed responsibility for the attack................http://www.voanews.com/content/shooting-near-canadian-parliament/2492218.html
Schüsse im Parlament und Shopping-Center – Polizei jagt Schützen ...
ReplyDeleteIn der kanadischen Hauptstadt Ottawa wird ein Soldat nahe des Kriegerdenkmals erschossen, danach fallen Schüsse im Parlament und in einem Einkaufszentrum. Die Polizei jagt mehrere Verdächtige.
Mitten im kanadischen Regierungsviertel ist ein Soldat niedergeschossen worden und einige Stunden später im Krankenhaus gestorben. Der Mann habe am Kriegerdenkmal in Ottawa Ehrenwache gestanden, als er von einem Unbekannten angegriffen wurde, berichtete die Polizei. Das Parlament wurde sofort abgeriegelt. Erst am Montag hatte ein mutmaßlicher Islamist zwei kanadische Soldaten überfahren, einer starb.
Einer der mutmaßlich mehreren Heckenschützen ist nach einem Bericht des Fernsehsenders CBC von der Polizei getötet worden. Die Polizei teilte mit, sie suche nach einem weiteren Verdächtigen............http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article133552254/Schuesse-im-Parlament-und-Shopping-Center-Polizei-jagt-Schuetzen.html
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Canada : le centre-ville d'Ottawa bouclé après une triple fusillade ...
ReplyDeletePlusieurs personnes ont ouvert le feu à trois endroits dans un rayon de moins de un kilomètre dans le centre d'Ottawa, mercredi 22 octobre. Un policier a été tué près d'un monument par un homme armé d'un fusil. Des tirs ont ensuite retenti dans l'enceinte du Parlement, qui a été bouclé par la police, comme l'ensemble du centre-ville, et dans le Centre Rideau, un centre commercial.
La police dit avoir été confrontée à au moins deux hommes armés. L'un d'entre eux a été abattu à l'intérieur du Parlement, où des dizaines de tirs ont été entendus, selon le site de la télévision publique CBC. Un autre s'est probablement retranché sur le toit du bâtiment, selon la police.
Des commandos de la police lourdement armés cherchaient les tireurs dans les couloirs du Parlement, comme le montre cette vidéo diffusée par le journal Globe and Mail :............http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2014/10/22/au-canada-le-parlement-boucle-apres-des-tirs-de-feu_4510672_3222.html#
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Fusillade à Ottawa: la défense aérienne américano-canadienne en alerte (responsable) ...
ReplyDeleteDans la matinée, un ou plusieurs hommes armés ont fait irruption dans le Parlement canadien à Ottawa et ont déclenché une fusillade. La police canadienne a abattu un tireur et recherchait toujours jusqu'à deux autres individus armés, après qu'un agent de sécurité posté à l'extérieur, grièvement touché, est décédé.
La défense aérienne américano-canadienne (Norad) a été placée en état d'alerte pour "être à même de répondre rapidement" à tout incident aérien qui pourrait être lié à la fusillade survenue à Ottawa mercredi matin, a annoncé à l'AFP un responsable du Pentagone, rapporte l'AFP.
Lire la suite: http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2014_10_22/photo-Fusillade-a-Ottawa-la-defense-aerienne-americano-canadienne-en-alerte-responsable-4902/
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US Offers Assistance to Canada in Wake of Shooting in Ottawa ...
ReplyDeleteThe White House has offered assistance to Canadian officials in the wake of shooting in Ottawa, US President Barack Obama keeps in touch with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
"Officials inside the US government have been in close touch with their Canadian counterparts today to offer assistance that includes officials here in the White House,” Earnest said.
“The President did connect with the Canadian prime-minister,” Earnest added.
Details of the conversation will be published later.
Earnest said that Canadian authorities are still investigating the shooting and declined to say whether US or Canadian officials believed the shooting could be a terrorist attack
http://en.ria.ru/world/20141022/194457483/US-Offers-Assistance-to-Canada-in-Wake-of-Shooting-in-Ottawa.html
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was addressing a meeting of legislators from his Conservative party in parliament on Wednesday when an armed man burst into the building and ran right by the door of the room, a cabinet minister told Reuters....
ReplyDelete"PM was addressing caucus, then a huge boom, followed by rat-a-tat shots. We all scattered. It was clearly right outside our caucus door," Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement said.............http://www.todayonline.com/world/canada-pm-talking-lawmakers-when-attack-happened-outside-door
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The Canadian capital of Ottawa is on high security alert after a series of deadly shootings hit the city on Wednesday morning first taking place at the War Memorial, where a soldier was shot dead, and then moving on to the country’s parliament....
ReplyDeleteAt approximately 9:50 a.m. a suspect clad in black and reportedly carrying a double-barrel shotgun fired at a guard of honor at the World War One War Memorial in downtown Ottawa and then, according to eyewitnesses, ran in the direction of the country’s parliament.
Shortly after the attack at the War Memorial, gunfire erupted inside the Parliament, where an armed suspect attempted to battle his way through the building, wounding at least two law enforcers on his way. The suspect was killed by police in return fire.
The Canadian Press reported that it was Kevin Vickers, the sergeant-at-arms for the House of Commons and 29-year RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) veteran, who shot the gunman in the parliament.
According to CNN, the killed gunman, who went on a shooting spree in Ottawa, was identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Canadian-born citizen.
“Two sources tell CNN that Bibeau was a convert to Islam and had a history of drug use before he converted,” CNN reported....................http://en.itar-tass.com/world/755935
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Ottawa shootings: No Islamic State link found ...
ReplyDeleteThere is no evidence so far that a gunman who attacked Canada's capital had links to Middle Eastern Islamist extremists, the government says.
Foreign Minister John Baird told the BBC that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was "certainly radicalised" but not on a list of high-risk individuals.
Zehaf-Bibeau killed a soldier at Ottawa's war memorial before being shot dead in the nearby parliament building................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29752077
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Britain puts armed soldiers at London tourist attraction after Canada attack...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Armed soldiers have been deployed at a top tourist attraction in the heart of London's government district as a precautionary measure after an Islamist gunman attacked the Canadian parliament last week, a military source said on Tuesday.
The source told Reuters that the decision to deploy the troops at the entrance to Horse Guards Parade in London's Whitehall was not motivated by a specific threat but was designed to be a visible deterrent.
Large throngs of tourists gather each day at Horse Guards, a short distance from Prime Minister David Cameron's official residence, to watch the ceremonial changing of the guard..............http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/28/us-britain-security-idUSKBN0IH20W20141028?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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