A gunman opened fire in an apartment killing five people before being shot dead by police.
The horror unfolded in the town of Vaughan, Canada at around 7.20pm on Sunday and a six victim is being treated in hospital.
York Regional Police Constable Laura Nicolle told CNN the incident was the “most terrible call I’ve seen in my entire career.”
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She said it is unclear if there is a connection between the victims and the shooter.Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween said the six victim is expected to survive, CBC reports. Nicolle added the many residents of the apartment block have now been evacuated.
“We want to make sure that [they] know that they’re going to be safe and that we get them back into their home as quickly as we can,” she said.
The five victims have not been identified, as next of kin are being notified.
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“We’re in the process right now of doing notifications to those families, so at this point I can’t share any information on the victims or the subject,” MacSween said in a statement
MacSween added that officers arrived “quite quickly” to the sene and “went right into the building and dealt with the situation” following what Nicolle described as a “very disturbing” weapons call.
