Canada school shooting: Five killed in Saskatchewan

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Source: BBC

Five people have been killed and two seriously wounded in a school shooting in Saskatchewan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed.

What unfolded at La Loche Community School in the north of the province was "every parent's worst nightmare", he said.

Mr Trudeau added that a suspect was in custody.

Witnesses at the scene described screaming and more than half a dozen shots.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35388594

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At least two people killed in shooting at Canadian school (La Loche, Saskatchewan)
Source: RTE

At least two people were killed in a shooting at a school in the remote community of La Loche, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A suspect is in custody, the Star Phoenix newspaper reported, citing a local aboriginal chief.

Canadian police declined to confirm that there was a shooting, but said they were on scene for a serious incident at La Loche Community School.

Police and the school district's Facebook page said the school was in lockdown.

Read more: http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0122/762324-canada-school-shooting/

#BREAKING School shooting in western Canada, police say; casualties reported
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/690653450263216129

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1. No. nt

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2. Vibes.

[maxsolomon]

3. Condolences.

another senseless Firearm tragedy.

[Purveyor]

4. Five Dead, Two Critically Hurt In Canada School Shooting: Prime Minister

Five people were killed and two critically injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan on Friday and a suspect is in custody, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

Trudeau did not give a motivation for the shooting in La Loche, about 600 km (375 miles) north of the city of Saskatoon. But La Loche acting Mayor Kevin Janvier told the Canadian Press the incident may have started at the suspect's home.

“I’m not 100 percent sure what’s actually happened but it started at home and ended at the school," Janvier said.


Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws than the United States. With five dead, La Loche would be the country's worst school shooting since 14 college students were killed at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.

"Obviously this is every parent's worst nightmare," said Trudeau, who was in Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-shooting-idUSKCN0V02KT

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5. Thanks for update

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6. Wouldn't we love to be able to say

Four dead today is the worst mass school shooting since 1989!!!

[valerief]

7. I wonder if the shooter moved from the U.S. WITH HIS GAWD-GIVEN RIGHTS and

COLD DEAD HANDS.

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8. Give it a break

Not all the evil in the world comes from America.

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9. It sounds like it occurred on a First Nations reserve

Hunting is a way of life in those communities, so guns would be quite common.

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10. :( nt