議會大廈槍擊案震驚加拿大
Canada’s capital was on alert and in shock on Wednesday after a gunman shot and killed a soldier at an Ottawa war memorial before entering parliament buildings and opening chaotic scenes unlike anything Canada has seen in recent times, politicians used chairs and tables to barricade themselves in a meeting room during the shootout in the corridors of parliament. Prime minister Stephen Harper was speaking at a meeting in the building at the time of the attack but was safely gunman was killed. US officials said the Canadian government had identified the man as Michael Ottawa Hospital reported that it had taken in four patients between 10.20am and 12.43pm. Apart from the soldier, they had “minor, non-life threatening injuries” but were released by the hospital by early the help of the FBI in the US, Canadian authorities said they were looking for any link between the dead gunman and known terrorist groups or sympathisers, although they said there was no immediate information about motivation.“Canada is not immune to terrorist attacks we have seen around the world. We will not be intimidated,” Mr Harper said in a press conference Wednesday night, adding that in coming days “we will learn more about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had” attack came as Canada was on heightened alert about the risk of Islamist terrorism after another soldier was killed on Monday near Montreal by a man who Mr Harper said had been “radicalised”ce on Monday shot and killed Martin Couture-Rouleau, 25, after he drove and struck two members of the Canadian Armed Forces, killing one and injuring the other, in da is taking part in the US-led military operation against Islamist militants in Iraq and city’s downtown core remained on lockdown for most of the day as police and Parliament Hill security ordered people to stay in their offices away from windows with their doors locked. At 8:25pm, the Ottawa police lifted the lockdown, having determined “there no longer exists a threat to public safety in the area”wa police said they were investigating whether more than one individual was involved in the attack but earlier reports of a shooting at a nearby shopping mall were later said to be ers of Parliament were gathered in parliament’s Centre Block building for their weekly caucus meetings when a man entered the building and began firing on Wednesday member of parliament Craig Scott said on Twitter that Kevin Vickers, Canada’s Sergeant at Arms, had saved lives by shooting the man.
