The suspect had been on the run since Saturday night when police were alerted to shots fired in the town of Portapique, around 100 kilometers from Halifax, capital of the Atlantic province.
MONTREAL - A gunman killed at least 13 people in an overnight shooting rampage across rural Nova Scotia, before being found dead Sunday after one of Canada's worst killing sprees in decades, federal police said.
"I can report that there were 13 victims so far, plus the suspect, that are deceased," the commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Brenda Lucki, told Canadian broadcaster CBC. "The search for the suspect ended this morning. When the suspect was located. And I can confirm that he is deceased," Chief Superintendent Chris Leather told a press conference earlier.
Leather said there was no final count on the number of victims, and that the investigation was in its early stages.
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