Shootings in Quebec City mosque has seen six people dead, seventeen people wounded and four have been arrested.
The shootings happened at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec on Sainte-Foy St. just before 8 pm Sunday night, when worshippers were in prayer session. Multiple ambulances arrived at the scene, and police later arrested four suspects in what it ruled out hate crime, and instead called it a terrorist act by the suspects.
After the shootings
According to reports, two men entered the mosque, targeting men on the ground floor and opened fire, but women and children were also hit by the gunshots.
All of the people injured were between 35-70 years old, while the people killed were between 39-60 years old.
In a statement released by the mosque via Facebook, it writes;
All our thoughts are with the children who have to be told their father has died," said the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre.
May Allah give them patience and strength.
Police later arrested two suspects of the attack, Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed el Khadir. One of the suspects was captured at the Quatre Bourgeois neighbourhood, while the other suspect turned himself in to the police.
According to the police inspector,Denis Turcotte of the Quebec City police force said that;
Around 8:10 the second suspect called police and told us of his act. He seemed to want to co-operate, He parked his car [near the bridge to Ile d'Orleans] and an officer arrested him.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Philippe Couillard called the shooting ""terrorist attack."
