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4 Dead in Canada Shooting, including 2 Policemen
[AnNahar] Two coppers were among four people killed Friday in a shooting in eastern Canada and a suspect has been locked away
Please don't kill me!
, authorities said.

Authorities in the city of Fredericton urged people in the Brookside neighborhood, where residents reported waking to the sounds of dozens of shots, to remain in their homes, describing it as an "active incident" on Twitter.

Around an hour after giving first word of the killings, a second message from police said: "At this time, we can confirm that we have one suspect in jug."

"Police continue to have the Brookside area contained for the foreseeable future as the investigation is ongoing," police added.

Then came word from police that "of the four people killed in this morning's shootings on Brookside Drive, two were Fredericton coppers."

The circumstances of the shooting in the capital of New Brunswick province, home to about 60,000 people, were not immediately clear.

Canadian public broadcaster CBC said that the shooting happened in a residential area of the city north of downtown, and that heavily armed police, paramedics and firefighters were on the scene.

Witnesses described to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation seeing the barrel of a rifle or shotgun poking out from the window of a low-rise apartment and shots being fired into its courtyard.

The CBC quoted Robert DiDiodato, who lives in the area, as saying he heard a series of "firecracker" sounds around 7 am.

"With the tempo, it might've been a gunshot," he said. "It was sort of like a pop, pop, pop, pop."

He said that about five minutes later he could hear similar sounds near his home.

"Doors are locked and everybody's inside," he said, according to CBC.

Another resident, who gave his name only as Justin, told the broadcaster: "I woke up and I heard gunshots and I looked outside my window.

"The cops were trying to put one of the officers in their vehicle to take them out to safety," he said.

During the fracas some residents could be seen being escorted by police out of their homes, while a nearby daycare, coffee shop and other businesses were on lockdown.
CBC adds a great deal of local detail, particularly this:
Suspect is a 48-year-old Fredericton man who was placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
in an apartment in the 200 block of Brookside Drive. He is being treated in hospital for serious injuries sustained in shooting.

Gaudet said the coppers who died were the first on the scene. They saw a man and woman lying on the ground ‐ the two civilians who were killed ‐ and were shot as they approached.
I would not normally post this kind of story, but one of the commenters at An Nahar wrote the following:
Sources close to the Fredericton Police Department revealed to Vivian Trudeau, AFP resident correspondent in Fredericton, the apprehended assailant is a Lebanese Shia who hails from the town of Brital in Lebanon's Eastern mountain range. Brital is home to iranian backed hezbollah's drug and crime operations and is out of reach to the central authorities in Beirut.

The assailant goes by the nom de guerre of Abal Abbas, a reference to a shia martyr from the middle ages.

The assailant confessed without further delay he acted upon orders of the terrorist group's leader to express dismay at Canada's inaction regarding Saudi Arabia's continued deadly air campaign in Yemen.

Hezbollah is an internationally renowned terrorist group with confirmed links to terrorism, money laundering, human and drug trafficking and child abuse with operations spanning the four corners of the globe.

Source: Agence France Presse
I have not been able to find the referenced AFP article, so cannot say whether or not it is true. If it is true, this becomes a WoT story tagged Moslem Colonists.

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-11
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