There were several victims of a mass shooting early Monday morning in the Canadian province of British Columbia and one man was in custody, police said.
Authorities had already issued an emergency alert for several shootings in the town of Langley and urged residents to stay alert and move away from the area of ​​the incident.
A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said there were “several casualties” in the incident. The statement did not specify the number.
The spokesperson said there were no further details available when asked how many of the victims were injured and how many died.
Another police spokesperson said investigators from the Lower Mainland Integrated Crime and Homicide Investigation Team were called in.
Police in Langley, a suburb of Vancouver, said they had responded to “multiple reports of gunshots being fired with multiple victims and several different scenes across the city of Langley” and urged the public to stay out of several areas, including the parking lot of a casino and a bus stop.
In an alert sent to BC residents’ phones, police said the shootings involved “transient casualties”. The alert said the suspect was described as a white man in coveralls and a camouflage shirt.
A Reuters eyewitness saw two black SUVs, similar to those used by police emergency teams, in a ditch near one of the shooting sites. One of the vehicles had bullet holes in the windshield.
Source: CNN Brasil
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