- Several shots were fired near the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa - a soldier is injured.
- The attacker keeps holed up on the roof of the building, police said.
- The offense occurred only a day after a suspected Islamist in Canada has run over two soldiers.
Unknown fires shots
In Canada, a soldier has been attacked. According to the police he had been at the war memorial honor guard, as a stranger fired at him. The Parliament was sealed off immediately. The attacker holds according to the police apparently on the roof of the building in Ottawa entrenched. A shooter was "probably on the roof," said a police officer.
The shots at the soldiers fell, according to police around 9:52 clock local time (15:52 German time). Passers-by tried to save the man first aid. About his condition, there are no details.
The police blocked off the area from expansive and urged all passersby to stay away from Parliament Hill.
The area is usually freely available, thousands of tourists have their picture taken with the guards every day.
The monument to the war dead is directly at Parliament Park, just across the street. The honor guard is indeed armed, assault rifles, however, are secured and are used purely for representational purposes. It was not clear at first whether they are normally charged at all. The monument was in 1939dedicated to the dead of the First World War, is now also the commemoration for the victims of other wars.
Parliament will be scans of Forces
An eyewitness told Reuters that police had tracked the shooter down to the main part of the parliament building. After that were more than 30 have been heard shots. According to CNN reports, there are so far no reports of injuries inside the Parliament.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper had been brought to safety, a government official said.
Suspected Islamist soldiers ran
A day earlier, a suspected Islamist in eastern Canada had near Montréal (Québec) injured two soldiers. The man had both run over in the parking lot of a shopping center, police said.
The police pursued reported to the 25-year-old who fled in a car at high speed.During the chase he lost control of his car and went off the road. The police shot him down when he got out of the car and threatened her with a knife. He died shortly afterwards in hospital. This Tuesday also one of the two soldiers died of his injuries.
The Minister of Public Safety, Steven Blaney, said the attack was "clearly in connection with a terrorist ideology." The police suspect a deliberate act, but did not specify whether it was planned in the longer term is. The assassin waited two hours in the parking lot, and there perhaps ambushed his victims, a police spokesman said. You think a terrorist attack is possible.
The Canadian federal police said was known to the authorities that the man "radicalized" had. Information on the membership of the assassin to an organization were not available. Even the man's neighbors said in an interview with local media that he had "changed" in the past one or two years and "converted to Islam" is. Local media reported that the authorities had already withdrawn from the assassin's passport. You would want to prevent jihadists he joins in Syria or Iraq.
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