Ottawa shootings
Oct 22nd 2014 | 4:53 am
#1
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Ottawa shootings
so far: 2 people shot. One a gunman, allegedly, and one a cdn soldier, not allegedy.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 4:57 am
#2
limey party pooper
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Re: Ottawa shootings
The Globe and Mail tells us that the Prime Minister is safe. That of course was my main worry.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:06 am
#3
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Re: Ottawa shootings
A parliamentary guard was wounded as well, the soldier who was guarding the cenotaph is dead of his wounds, and the status of the shooter is being withheld (though rumoured earlier as being shot dead).
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:18 am
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Re: Ottawa shootings
Reporting that there are multiple shooters, war memorial, parliament and Rideau shopping centre. Situation is being described as fluid and the area is in in lockdown.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:20 am
#6
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Re: Ottawa shootings
They cancelled Malala's citizenship ceremony, I'll take that as 'postponed'. I'd put money on the centre block intruder being dead too and not wounded; enough people who were in there said so.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:28 am
#7
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Re: Ottawa shootings
No official statement yet on the status of anybody who was shot. Unconfirmed reports that the Centre Block shooter is dead (shot by the Sergeant-at-Arms); and that the soldier (a reservist from Hamilton) has died of his wounds. The latter news was tweeted from the Conservatives caucus room, so may yet be nothing more than a rumour - but I can't imagine why an MP would say such a thing without good cause.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:31 am
#8
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slanderer of the innocent
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Re: Ottawa shootings
rip
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:31 am
#9
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Re: Ottawa shootings
Nothing confirmed either way.
Lots of rumour, few facts.
I hope the soldier is OK, but the information leaking out seems bleak.
Yesterdays atrocity was bad enough.
Lots of rumour, few facts.
I hope the soldier is OK, but the information leaking out seems bleak.
Yesterdays atrocity was bad enough.
Last edited by iaink; Oct 22nd 2014 at 5:35 am.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:32 am
#10
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From: UK
Re: Ottawa shootings
Top marks for shooting the shooter dead. Decisive action.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:35 am
#11
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Re: Ottawa shootings
Extraordinary video of that from a Globe & Mail reporter who was in the lobby at the time.
http://fw.to/kOMjQ6g
http://fw.to/kOMjQ6g
Oct 22nd 2014 | 5:39 am
#12
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Re: Ottawa shootings
Extraordinary video of that from a Globe & Mail reporter who was in the lobby at the time.
http://fw.to/kOMjQ6g
http://fw.to/kOMjQ6g
Oct 22nd 2014 | 6:01 am
#13
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From: Upstate South Carolina
Re: Ottawa shootings
Ottawa police appear to have confirmed the worst. Bugger.
Oct 22nd 2014 | 6:09 am
#14
"In cruce vincam"
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From: Mill Bay, Vancouver Island
Re: Ottawa shootings
I hope they catch the other gits and throw them away for ever! It's like the fanatical terrorists of the 70's all over again!
