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Several people have been injured in a shooting at a college in the Canadian city of Montreal, according to Canadian media reports. | Several people have been injured in a shooting at a college in the Canadian city of Montreal, according to Canadian media reports. |
Details on the incident at Dawson College are still sketchy, but initial reports say four people have been hurt, two of them seriously. | |
Some reports said a gunman had entered the cafeteria at lunchtime and there may have been more than one suspect. | |
TV footage showed students fleeing the campus and stretchers with casualties. | |
Eyewitnesses spoke of blood on the steps of the building, which houses 10,000 students. | |
Police have cordoned off the area and nearby sites have been evacuated. | |
In December 1989 a gunman shot and killed 14 young women in Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, before turning the gun on himself. |