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| A gunman has killed a young woman and injured 19 other people at a college in the Canadian city of Montreal, before being shot dead by police. | A gunman has killed a young woman and injured 19 other people at a college in the Canadian city of Montreal, before being shot dead by police. |
| The man, clad in black, entered the canteen of Dawson College, in central Montreal, at lunchtime. | |
| Some students fled in terror from the campus as he opened fire, while others barricaded themselves in classrooms. | |
| The dead woman was in her 20s. Five of the injured are in a critical condition in hospital with gunshot wounds. | |
| Montreal's chief of police, Yvan Delorme, said the gunman was killed by officers after they stormed the building. | |
| Later, he told RDI Television that the young woman had died of her injuries in hospital. | Later, he told RDI Television that the young woman had died of her injuries in hospital. |
| 'Emotionless' | 'Emotionless' |
| Dawson College students described how the shooting began at about 1245 local time (1645 GMT), and how a total of 20 shots were heard over a half-hour period. | |
| I was in my calculus class when I heard three shots... we saw one guy on the floor bleeding Jose Rafael HerediaDawson College student href="/1/hi/world/americas/5344320.stm" class="">Eyewitness accounts | |
| One witness described how the gunman, dressed in a black trench coat and military boots, appeared emotionless as he carried out the shooting. | |
| "He said nothing. He had a stone cold face... He just started opening fire," said student Soher Marous. | "He said nothing. He had a stone cold face... He just started opening fire," said student Soher Marous. |
| Others told of how he pursued terrified students along corridors and up stairwells. Those who could not escape barricaded the doors to classrooms and hid themselves under their desks. | |
| Jose Rafael Heredia told the BBC News website: "I was in my calculus class when I heard three shots. | Jose Rafael Heredia told the BBC News website: "I was in my calculus class when I heard three shots. |
| "Then one of my classmates saw through the window and started to say: 'Oh my God, oh my God.' Then everybody saw through the window, and we saw one guy on the floor bleeding... next to him was a girl that had been shot on her leg." | "Then one of my classmates saw through the window and started to say: 'Oh my God, oh my God.' Then everybody saw through the window, and we saw one guy on the floor bleeding... next to him was a girl that had been shot on her leg." |
| The shooting revived memories of a December 1989 attack in the city when a gunman shot and killed 14 young women in the Ecole Polytechnique, before turning the gun on himself. | |
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