Canada: shooting at the mosque. At least 5 dead – Onet.pl

Suspected terrorists have stormed during the evening prayer in a mosque in the canadian East coast, the metropolis of Quebec, and several people shot. The local police confirmed that there had been participated in a shootout with the dead and injured, as well as several, but initially no precise Figures. The Chairman of the mosque, told the German press Agency that he had been asked to identify five corpses. The Prime Minister of the province of Quebec, Philippe Couillard, said the attack in the night on Monday as an act of terrorism.

according to media reports, two Suspects were arrested. One of them had taken the security forces after a chase. According to the newspaper “Le Soleil” was one of the armed of the arrested with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. “The situation is under control,” said police spokesman David Poitras late in the evening, after the security forces had advanced with a great force. “The environment has been secured, and we have evacuated all the buildings.”

Radio Canada, against 20 PM (local time) dozens of people in the mosque were at the time of the crime in the district of Sainte-Foy. An eye witness told the station that two masked men had stormed the building, and the fire on the worshippers opened, while “shouting Allahu Akbar” (God is great). Several children had witnessed the attack.

the mosque had already been the target of attacks

“It is appalling,” said the mosque’s Chairman, Mohammed Yangui of the dpa. “These people come every day to peacefully Pray, but now some of them will never return from the prayer home. I am shocked, I have no words to describe what I feel." Yangui pointed out that his mosque was in the past already several times the target of attacks. In June, about a severed pig’s head was placed in the entrance area of the mosque.

the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau spoke of a “cowardly attack” on the mosque and spoke to the families of the victims his condolences. Provincial head of the government, Couillard called after the attack to the closed use against all violence and for solidarity with Muslims.

In Canada, a growing number of Muslim immigrants, particularly from the countries of North Africa. This leads to conflicts in the secular country. In Quebec, it came up repeatedly in past years to anti-Muslim incidents. 2015 was set in the neighboring province of Ontario a mosque on fire, a day after the attacks in Paris. (dpa, and Reuters)