A gunman disguised as a policeman killed at least 16 people, including a female police officer, in the worst mass shooting in Canada’s modern history.<\/p>\n
The 12-hour rampage started late on Saturday and ended with a car chase.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect shot people at different locations in Nova Scotia, many of them randomly. He was killed in a confrontation with police.<\/p>\n
He was reported to have been driving what looked like a police car.<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the attack as “a terrible situation”.<\/p>\n
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil told reporters this was “one of the most senseless acts of violence in our province’s history”.<\/p>\n
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Media captionCanadian Prime Minister Trudeau on ‘terrible situation’<\/p>\n
What do we know about what happened?<\/p>\n
Police began receiving calls about shots being fired at a home in Portapique about 22:00 local time (01:00 GMT on Sunday), the Globe and Mail reports.<\/p>\n
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers arrived to find “several casualties” inside and outside the home, but did not find the suspect.<\/p>\n
The alleged attacker, who was later identified by Nova Scotia police tweets as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, owned two large properties in the village, the Globe says.<\/p>\n
At 23:30, RCMP tweeted that officers were responding to a firearms complaint in the area, and advised residents to lock themselves indoors. While officers descended on the scene, a series of fires broke out around the community, and then later at homes about 40km (25 miles) north, the Globe reports.<\/p>\n
Neighbours told the newspaper that Mr Wortman set fire to his home and several buildings on the property, and shot people when they ran out of their homes.<\/p>\n
RCMP continued pursuing Mr Wortman for hours, following a series of crime scenes that police said were “scattered across the province” and which police are still working to piece together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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