January 24, 2016 by admin

4 dead in Canada school shooting

Ottawa, Shots rang out at a school in western Canada today, leaving four people dead and several others critically injured in the nation’s worst such shooting in a quarter of a century.
Prime Minster Justin Trudeau held a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Summit, to announce the death toll in the remote northern aboriginal community of La Loche in the province of Saskatchewan.
The suspected shooter was taken into custody after police received an emergency call about “a person discharging a weapon in the community,” RCMP superintendent Maureen Levy said.
She said police were also investigating a second location in a nearby residential neighbourhood, but provided no further details.
Authorities did not disclose the age and identify of the shooter and victims. “We all grieve with and stand with the community of La Loche and all of Saskatchewan on this terrible tragic day,” Trudeau said.
Located deep in Canada’s northern boreal forest, 600 km north of Saskatoon, this town of about 3,000 is particularly isolated and authorities had to send in police reinforcements and dispatch a medical helicopter to airlift some victims to a hospital.