Video: Canadian Police Firing Weapons During a Sweep of a Parliament Building

A Canadian soldier was shot at a war memorial in Ottawa this
morning, Parliament Hill then went into lockdown, two other
shootings in the area have been reported, one alleged shooter has
been killed, and there are reports of other gunmen at large. Beyond
that, the facts are pretty cloudy. For a sense of the chaos, here’s
some footage of police firing their weapons during a sweep of a
Parliament building:

The video was shot by The Globe and Mail‘s Josh
Wingrove.

Many Canadians are already on edge because of a Monday
incident in Quebec, in which a recent convert to Islam
deliberately hit two soldiers with a car, killing one. Whether or
not that attack turns out to be linked to today’s violence, we’re
pretty much guaranteed to see speculation that it was.

Stay tuned to 24/7 for more
developments.