Canada, shooting in a school in La Loche: 4 dead
Canada, shooting in a school in La Loche: 4 dead
LA LOCHE – Terror in a quiet northern Canadian village: a gunman killed four people and injured many others in a school building. The alleged killer was arrested. It all happened at lunchtime in La Loche, north of the town of Saskatchewan, a village of 2,600 people. Many of indigenous Canadian origin, part of a historic community founded in the late 1700s on the fur trade route. The police were called for some shots at Dane High School, inside La Loche Community School, which hosts the entire school cycle, from kindergarten to high school.
Upon arrival the agents found several bodies on the ground. At first there was talk of five victims, as the Canadian prime minister, Justine Trudeau, had said from Davos, Switzerland, where he participated in the World Economic Forum, speaking of “terrible tragedy”.
Then the local authorities have specified that the dead are four, without however revealing their identity, or explaining whether or not they are students. As nothing is known at the moment about the person stopped.
“We do not want to prejudice the investigations, the local authorities explained, talking about a real” nightmare “. The scene inside the school was called” horrible. “On the spot the police also found the weapon of the massacre. The witnesses tell of a general stampede, with boys, teachers and staff in shock. On the campus there are about 900 students every day, who occupy two buildings. The killer “shot two of his brothers at home and then headed to the school “, told the Rev. Kevin Janvier, father of one of the victims, Marie Janvier,
This is a very rare episode in Canada, unlike what happens in the neighboring United States. Only three mass shootings between 2000 and 2014. But the worst in the country’s history dates back to 6 December 1989, when a man shot and killed 14 female students with a semi-automatic rifle at the Montreal Polytechnic.
(22 January 2016)