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<P>Hello all.</P> <P> </P> <P>[#offtopic] A terrible event happened today...</P> <P>From CBC website:</P> <P>One person has died in hospital as a result of the shooting rampage at a downtown Montreal college Wednesday that also left the gunman dead and 19 others injured.</P><I><EM> <P></I></EM>Paramedics confirmed 20 people were taken to hospital with injuries ranging from gunshot wounds to emotional shock following the shooting at Dawson College.</P> <P>Police Chief Yvan Delorme told RDI television that a woman in her 20s had died.</P> <P>Montreal General Hospital officials said eight patients were in critical condition, with two undergoing emergency surgery late Wednesday night. The hospital said it would not issue a further statement on the victims' conditions until early Thursday.</P> <P>Three other victims were taken to Jean Talon Hospital and two others were transported to the Jewish General Hospital.</P> <P>The lone gunman was shot dead by police minutes after he opened fire on the student body at Dawson College, a CEGEP serving about 10,000 students near the Old Forum in Montreal.</P> <P>The suspect reportedly walked into Dawson College around 12:41 p.m. ET and began firing at students in the cafeteria. Police arrived three minutes later.</P> <P>"They saw a suspect shooting inside the walls of Dawson," Delorme told a news conference. "So the first policeman took charge of the situation, and shot in the direction of the suspect, and the suspect died."</P> <P>I went to college not too away from this school...</P> <P> </P> <P>Please keep the students and their family in your thoughts.</P> <P> </P>
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