13 killed by a man wearing a police uniform in a Canada shooting rampage

13 killed by a man wearing a police uniform in a Canada shooting rampage

By Naveel Krishant
Monday 20/04/2020
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers prepare to take a person into custody at a gas station in Nova Scotia on Sunday April 19, 2020. A suspect in an active shooter investigation is in custody in Nova Scotia. [Image: Canadian Press]

A man wearing a police uniform went on a shooting rampage as he drove around the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 13 people, including a police officer.

Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead.

Several of the dead were found inside and outside one home in the small, rural town of Portapique, about 100 kilometres north of Halifax.

Police began advising residents of the town - already on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic - to lock their doors and stay in their basements.

Several homes in the area were set on fire as well.

Police identified the man believed to be the shooter as Gabriel Wortman, who was thought to live part-time in Portapique.

Authorities said he disguised himself as a police officer in uniform at one point and made his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser.

[Source: Stuff.co]

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