Summary

  • There have been two shooting incidents in Ottawa - at the National War Memorial and inside parliament

  • A soldier guarding the war memorial was shot and later died of his injuries

  • A gunman has been killed in the parliament building, it is not clear if other gunmen are at large

  • Several buildings are on lockdown and residents have been told to stay away from windows and roofs

  • PM Stephen Harper says "Canada will never be intimidated" and will "redouble our efforts" in fighting terrorist groups

Live Reporting

Sherie Ryder, Yaroslav Lukov, Mike Hills, David Walker, Victoria Park and Bernadette McCague

  1. Craig Scott
    Canadian politician

    tweets: MPs and Hill staff owe their safety, even lives, to Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers who shot attacker just outside the MPs' caucus rooms.

  2. Armed police approach Centre Block on Parliament Hill, Ottawa. 22 Oct 2014Reuters

    These armed police are seen approaching Centre Block on Parliament Hill, Ottawa

  3. We are still waiting for news on the condition of the soldier shot at the war memorial in Ottawa. Alex Boutilier, a reporter for the Toronto Star, said a worker at the city's main hospital told him the soldier was still receiving treatment.

  4. Josh Wingrove
    Reporter for the Globe and Mail

    tweets: We are hearing banging in the Parliament building but security very calm. Sounds like maybe battering rams being used to open doors.

  5. Jennifer Ditchburn, Reporter, Ottawa

    tweets: The eerie scene at Rideau and Sussex. See photo

  6. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is understood to have cancelled his public events for the day, including a meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who is in Toronto to receive honorary Canadian citizenship. Mr Harper is due to make a statement later today.

  7. Darrell Keezer took this picture:

    Ottawa shootingDarrell Keezer

  8. Kady O'Malley
    CBC reporter

    tweets: Chateau Laurier [a hotel close to the Rideau Centre], surrounded by police, who just ordered us off the roof

    She adds: Judging from the warning we just got, it sounds like the police think at least one potential threat is still around

  9. Get involved

    Nichola Loudiadis: Hello, I'm a student who goes to a high school in Ottawa. Currently every building (stores, hotels, schools) in the downtown Ottawa area have been put into a pseudo lockdown. At our own school we have been put into 'secure school' which states that no-one is to leave the building until further notice.

  10. Police appear to be trying to secure the area around the Rideau Centre after reports of gunshots there earlier. Vassy Kapelos, a journalist with Canada's Global National radio station, tweets: Total pandemonium near rideau centre. Police screaming for everyone to leave - we are.

  11. Get involved

    @brenthazelton tweets: Just witnessed them load the shooter in an ambulance with a white sheet pulled over him. #shooter #cdnpoli

  12. Heavily armed officers are still conducting building to building searches in the area around parliament. A number of parliament employees and journalists remain in lockdown inside the building following the exchange of fire earlier.

    Armed RCMP officers on patrol close to the parliament building after the shooting incident - 22 October 2014Reuters

  13. Mia Rabson, Parliamentary Bureau Chief, Winnipeg Free Press, Ottawa

    tweets: Downtown mall in Ottawa, the Rideau Centre, a few blocks east of Parliament Hill, is now in lockdown. #bn

  14. Armed police guard access to Parliament Hill. 22 Oct 2014Reuters

    Armed police are guarding the access to Parliament Hill in Ottawa

  15. Dave Bradley
    Journalist at Newstalk1010

    tweets: Ottawa Police now confirming a 3rd shooting. This one at the Rideau Centre Mall. No word on injuries at that one. The Rideau shopping centre is close to the other two confirmed shooting incidents, at the parliament building and the war memorial.

  16. Get involved

    Ian Chandler: I'm in lockdown at my school & lunch has been cancelled. My dad is downtown in the building across the street from the shooting at the war memorial.

  17. Get involved

    @rohozinski tweets: Police have now cleared area as far back as Albert Street. More technical teams arriving. See photo

  18. Lauren Dobson-Hughes, who is in the area, tweets: Police have confirmed they're looking for 'multiple shooters'. Unclear if this is two, including the dead one, or three

  19. Get involved

    @Adamyk tweets: The fact that there's no new updates on suspect number #2 leads me believe I'll be locked in here for a long time. #OttawaShooting

  20. Ottawa map

    An aerial view of central Ottawa where the shootings have taken place