An ambulance is parked in the scene of a fatal shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City, Canada. Reuters
Five individuals were killed after gunmen opened fire within a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers, the mosque’s president told reporters on Sunday.
Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center. Police put up a security perimeter towards the mosque and declined to comment to reporters regarding the incident.
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“Why is this actually happening on this page? This is barbaric,” said the mosque’s president, Mohamed Yangui.
In June 2016, a pig’s head was left on the doorstep within the cultural core.
Yangui, who was not within the mosque as soon as the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers. He did not know what number of were injured, saying they had been transported to different hospitals across Quebec City.
Incidents of Islamophobia increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab, or Muslim face embracing. In 2013, police investigated after a mosque ultimately Saguenay region of Quebec was splattered with ideas presented believed to be able to pig keep.
In the neighboring province of Ontario, a mosque was set on fire in 2015, a next day of an attack by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris.
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