Two homeless people were shot dead in Canada. The attacker was killed by the police. Photo: Reuters
Two men died from a series of thomeless shootings took place this Monday in the city of Langley, in western Canada, where two other people were seriously injured. Police the alleged executioner killed of those facts.
The alleged attacker of the gunshots was a man who was killed by officers after a shooting in which a camouflaged police vehicle sustained numerous bullet wounds.
Canadian mounted police reported in a statement that a total of four people, all homeless, were attacked by the alleged perpetrator.
The bullet hits the police vehicle after the brutal confrontation. Photo: AP
Initially, a spokesman for the mounted police in Langley told the Canadian public broadcaster, CBC, that the man had been arrested.
Police said the attack began just before 06:15 local time (12:15 in Argentina). At that time, police received information about shootings at various locations in Langley, a town located on the outskirts of Vancouver on the Pacific coast of Canada.
One of the deceased was found at a bus stop while the second deceased was found in a park near a community center that supports the homeless.
The officers also identified two seriously injured people, one of them a woman in critical condition.
At around 7 am (1 pm in Argentina), the police identified the suspect in the shooting in a street in Langley and, after a fight, he was shot down by officers.
In images published by various media, bicycles and backpacks can be seen in the middle of the road surrounded by police cones, as well as a police vehicle with signs of at least nine bullet wounds on the windshield and the driver’s window. EFE
With information from EFE
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Source: Clarin
