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Latest developments: Shots fired inside Canadian Parliament

Oct 22, 2014

A gunman shot a Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday, then entered Parliament and shots rang out, police and witnesses said.

People fled Parliament by scrambling down scaffolding erected for renovations, witnesses told the Canadian Press news agency. The top spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Harper was safe and had left Parliament Hill.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned people in downtown Ottawa to stay away from windows and rooftops.

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