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Quebec City mosque shooting: Six killed, eight wounded

Media captionPolice and ambulances encompassed the range around the mosque

Six individuals have been executed and another eight injured in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, police say.

Shots were discharged at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center on Sunday night, where more than 50 individuals had accumulated for night petitions.

One think was captured at the scene and another was captured close-by. Police don't accept there are different suspects on the loose.

The Canadian experts are regarding the shooting as a dread assault.

"We censure this fear based oppressor assault on Muslims in a focal point of love and asylum," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an announcement.

"Muslim-Canadians are a vital piece of our national texture, and these silly demonstrations have no place in our groups, urban communities and nation."

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Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard likewise alluded to the shooting as a fear monger assault.

The dead were matured between around 35 and 70 years of age, police representative Christine Coulombe said. Some of those harmed were in a genuine condition, she said.

Police said the territory was secure and the circumstance was "under control". Thirty-nine individuals had left the mosque securely, they said.

Prior, a witness had revealed to Reuters news office that up to three shooters had been included. The news office additionally announced that an "intensely equipped police strategic squad" had been seen entering the mosque.

The second speculate fled the scene in a vehicle yet was captured on an extension prompting to Orleans Island, the Journal de Quebec revealed. The suspect had called the police himself, the daily paper said.

Police seized programmed weapons and handguns from the claimed assailants, the Journal de Quebec said.

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A rescue vehicle is stopped at the scene of a lethal shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center in Quebec City, Canada January 29, 2017.

The leader of the mosque, Mohamed Yangui - who was not inside at the time - said the shooting had occurred in the men's area of the mosque.

"Why is this event here? This is boorish," he said.

On its Facebook page the inside expressed gratitude toward people in general "for the several messages of sympathy".

In June a year ago a similar mosque was the objective of an Islamophobic episode when a pig's head was left before the working, with a card saying "bonne appetit".