'Please avoid the area': Toronto police hunt active shooter after two killed
Police in Toronto are searching today for an active shooter who killed two people and wounded three in an area lined with shops and restaurants.
“Please avoid the area immediately and follow all directions from police,” Toronto police said in a X post.
“Police have secured the scene,” authorities later said in a follow-up post.
Local media reported the shooting took place in an area where a salsa festival was being held.
The incident comes after another shooting in Montreal late last month, where two people, including a police officer, were killed by an assailant who was then shot dead by law enforcement.
In February, a school shooting in the small western mining town of Tumbler Ridge killed eight people, including the shooter’s mother and half brother, and injured 27 before she took her own life.
- AFP
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