LA LOCHE [SASKATCHEWAN], Canada. Five people were shot dead Friday at a school in an aboriginal community in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said five people were killed and two more were critically wounded.
Trudeau said the alleged shooter was in custody and the situation was under control. He called the shooting every parent’s worst nightmare.
The La Loche Community School includes grade 7 through 12.
CBC News reported a hospital nurse said a number of people were being treated for gunshot wounds.
“I ran outside the school,” Noel Desjarlais, a student at the school, told CBC News. “There was lots of screaming, there was about six, seven shots before I got outside. I believe there was more shots by the time I did get out.”
The school said Friday on its Facebook page that it will remain on lockdown until the Royal Canadian Police resolve the matter. It asked the public to stay away.
La Loche is a remote aboriginal community of about 3,000 people in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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