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On March 6, 2024, the Wickramasinghe family, Sri Lankan immigrants, were fatally stabbed inside of their house in Barrhaven, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Four children were killed, along with their mother, a male family friend and their father was injured. It was the worst mass killing in the city's recent history. [1]
This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".
This is a list of mass shooting and shooting sprees in Canada. Shootings with four or more victims are included on this list, excluding perpetrators. 20th century
The victim toll from the worst mass shooting in Canadian history has risen to 23 from previously reported 19, federal police said in a statement on Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP ...
Police fanned out across more than a dozen crime scenes Monday after a rampage by a gunman disguised as a police officer left at least 18 dead and homes in smoldering ruins in rural communities ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said the death toll included the suspect. The RCMP said in a statement it was investigating the 16 crime scenes that were part of the murder spree, several of which ...
On December 18, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at the Bellaria Residences condominium tower in Vaughan, a suburb north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Six people were killed, including the gunman, 73-year-old Francesco Villi, who was shot and killed by responding police officers. [2]
Canada on Thursday launched a review into the country's worst-ever mass shooting and the probe will look at whether police actions allowed the killer to remain free hours after his spree began ...