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Canada Edmonton: Eight killed in 'senseless mass murder' | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
Seven adults and two children have been found dead in the Canadian city of Edmonton after what police called a "senseless mass murder". | |
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 incident unfolded in three different locations in Edmonton, in the western province of Alberta. | |
Seven bodies were found in the same house, police chief Rod Knecht said. | |
He said it was the worst mass killing in Edmonton since six people were killed in 1956. | |
"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. | |
'Depressed man' | |
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. | |
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. |