A Sri Lankan family has been found dead in Ottawa, Canada, with a 19-year-old Sri Lankan student arrested for the murders.
What happened: The Ottawa Police Service announced the deaths of six people from Sri Lanka on Wednesday, including a mother and four young children. The incident, a rare case of mass murder in Canada, left the country in shock, Reuters reported.
The father of the family was also injured in the attack and is currently hospitalized. The suspect, Febrio De-Zoysa, a 19-year-old male student from Sri Lanka, was charged with six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. De-Zoysa was known to the family and resided in their home.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed horror at what he described as a “terrible tragedy.” Additionally, the father of the family was injured in the attack and is currently hospitalized.
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Among the victims are a 35-year-old woman, her children aged 7, 4, 2 and 2 months and a 40-year-old man who was an acquaintance of the family. Eric Stubbsthe Ottawa police chief, described the incident as a “senseless act of violence perpetrated on purely innocent people.”
Because matter: The incident shook Canada, a country where mass killings are rare. This tragedy comes at a time when the issue of immigration is a hot topic for the president of the United States Joe Biden has been criticized for his approach to immigration, with some accusing him of allowing a significant influx of undocumented immigrants into the United States to shift the country’s political landscape toward a one-party system.
Mass shootings have also been a significant concern in the United States, with tech companies such as Google take measures to protect its users from such incidents.
In February, a Super Bowl victory parade for the Kansas City Chiefs turned tragic when gunfire erupted, leaving one dead and 21 injured.
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