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14/09/2006
Police investigate gun attack on school in Montreal
Police in Canada are investigating the attack on a Montreal college in which a gunman ran riot, killing a young woman.
The dead woman has been named by Canadian newspapers as Anastasia DeSouza aged 18.
The city's police chief, Yvan Delorme ruled out racism or terrorism as the motive for the attack which was reportedly carried out by a local Canadian man.
Nineteen people were also wounded in the rampage at Dawson College, an English language school with 10,000 students between the ages of 16 and 19.
Eyewitnesses reported blood on the steps to the college, and inside the cafeteria. They said at least 20 shots were fired.
Reports imply that the man named Kimveer Gill aged 25, was shot dead by police officers who arrived within minutes of the attack beginning.
Clad in black and carrying three weapons, the gunman had entered the canteen of Dawson College during the lunch hour. Some students fled in terror as he opened fire, while others barricaded themselves in classrooms.
Six of the vicitms are in a critical condition in the intensive care unit at Montreal General Hospital.
Hospital spokeswoman Sheila Moore said that they are recovering from surgery after sustaining gunshot wounds to the head and stomach. Two are in a 'very critical condition'. A further five people injured in the attack are 'stable and recuperating' on a regular ward.
(DS)
The dead woman has been named by Canadian newspapers as Anastasia DeSouza aged 18.
The city's police chief, Yvan Delorme ruled out racism or terrorism as the motive for the attack which was reportedly carried out by a local Canadian man.
Nineteen people were also wounded in the rampage at Dawson College, an English language school with 10,000 students between the ages of 16 and 19.
Eyewitnesses reported blood on the steps to the college, and inside the cafeteria. They said at least 20 shots were fired.
Reports imply that the man named Kimveer Gill aged 25, was shot dead by police officers who arrived within minutes of the attack beginning.
Clad in black and carrying three weapons, the gunman had entered the canteen of Dawson College during the lunch hour. Some students fled in terror as he opened fire, while others barricaded themselves in classrooms.
Six of the vicitms are in a critical condition in the intensive care unit at Montreal General Hospital.
Hospital spokeswoman Sheila Moore said that they are recovering from surgery after sustaining gunshot wounds to the head and stomach. Two are in a 'very critical condition'. A further five people injured in the attack are 'stable and recuperating' on a regular ward.
(DS)
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