A small aboriginal community in western Canada was in mourning on Saturday after a high school student shot dead two brothers and two trainee teachers and left several others wounded, uk.news.yahoo.com reports
Friday's shooting occurred at a home and then at a nearby school in remote La Loche, in Saskatchewan province, Canadian police and other sources said. Prime Minster Justin Trudeau called it "every parent's worst nightmare." Unlike in the United States, mass shootings are rare in Canada, where firearms are more regulated than south of the border.
The suspected shooter, who has not been named, was taken into custody after police received an emergency call about "a person discharging a weapon in the community," RCMP superintendent Maureen Levy told reporters.
Witnesses said the shooter had a shotgun and the acting mayor of La Loche, Kevin Janvier, told CTV News that the alleged gunman was a young man under 21 and a student at the school
He was being questioned on Saturday. Investigators were pursuing their probe both at the school and at a nearby residence.
Candles burned all night outside La Loche Community School and on Friday night, hundreds of people held a vigil in memory of the victims.
Authorities were yet to name all the dead and the exact number of wounded, but the two brothers were killed at their home, followed by the teachers at the school. Source; uk.news.yahoo.com
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