The Royal Canadian Mounted Police intervention team responding to the shootings. CREDIT: AP Police in Ottawa, Canada confirmed three separate shooting incidents on Wednesday morning near the Canadian Parliament, injuring at least one soldier. Authorities quickly locked down the areas surrounding downtown Ottawa and asked people to stay inside downtown buildings. They confirmed that at least one alleged gunman is dead. The incidents come just days after Canadian intelligence officials raised the nation’s terror threat level from low to medium over concerns that home-grown radical groups would attempt to conduct “ knife and gun attacks .” On Monday, a...
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