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Canada police investigate multiple deaths Canada Edmonton: Eight killed in 'senseless mass murder'
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Police are investigating several suspicious deaths in Alberta, Canada, but have not said if they are linked. Seven adults and two children have been found dead in the Canadian city of Edmonton after what police called a "senseless mass murder".
Authorities have found at least four bodies. Canadian broadcaster CBC reports there are as many as nine. One of the dead is believed to have killed himself. Police are not looking for any other suspects and are treating the deaths as domestic violence.
The bodies were discovered at two locations in Edmonton and one in nearby Fort Saskatchewan. The incident unfolded in three different locations in Edmonton, in the western province of Alberta.
Police spokesman Scott Pattison said at least two bodies were found in a home in the northern part of Edmonton on Monday night. Seven bodies were found in the same house, police chief Rod Knecht said.
On the same night, they found the body of a woman in south-western Edmonton, after responding to a call about a weapon in a home, Mr Pattison told the Associated Press news agency. He said it was the worst mass killing in Edmonton since six people were killed in 1956.
In nearby Fort Saskatchewan, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) personnel are involved in an investigation but have not said whether a body was found in the area. "Our thoughts go out to the community as we all come to terms with the senseless mass murder of eight people," he told a press conference.
They are also investigating a suspicious death in Sherwood Park, a city east of Edmonton. 'Depressed man'
Unnamed police officials told CBC that seven bodies have been found at one Edmonton home, one body at another location in the city and a ninth body in Fort Saskatchewan. Police discovered the body of a woman at a house in south Edmonton at 18:00 local time on Monday (01:00 GMT Tuesday), he said.
Edmonton police officials are expected to release more details at a news conference on Tuesday. They later responded to reports of a despondent and depressed man at an address in north Edmonton at around 20:30 but were unable to find him.
But when they returned at about midnight after receiving new information they found seven bodies - three women, two men and two children.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, they found a body matching the description of the suicidal male at a restaurant 25 miles (40km) north-east of Edmonton.
"These events were not gang-related," Mr Knecht told reporters, "but instances of domestic violence."
He said police would not be releasing the names of the victims or the killer yet.